“Sad news,” was how the American economist and Nobel Prize in Economics Paul Krugman began a text to put in your blog, about the death of José da Silva Lopes.
“I met Silva Lopes in 1976, when I joined a group of MIT students who spent the summer working at the Bank of Portugal, which was governor at the time,” Krugman points out.
“Working with Silva Lopes was one of the main events” of stay in Portugal, he added.
In your text, titled “José da Silva Lopes RIP” (initials of “Rest in Peace”, in English and Latin), Krugman describes Silva Lopes as “an economist and Portuguese ruler who played a role crucial in the conduct of their country to the community of democratic Europe. ”
Looking to stay in 1976 through the eyes of now, Krugman admits that then Silva Lopes must have been “horrified to try to deal with coarse students, while looking face the chaos of an unstable political system, the remains, but showing a good mood and an inexhaustible intelligence. ”
After recalling various fun episodes, passed to Silva Lopes in 1976, Krugman admits to having felt “honored and delighted” to have him when he was revised doctoral universities for three Lisbon in 2012, when heard his speech:. “If they read, see that was so deep, and humorous, as always”
The Nobel Prize considered that “the world has lost a great, good and incredibly nice man” .
Minister of Finance, Governor of the Bank of Portugal, European Bank for Reconstruction administrator and Development (EBRD), the representative of Portugal to the World Bank and Chairman of the Economic and Social Council were some of the positions held by Silva Lopes.
Lusa / SOL
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