Phrases to remember Jose Luis Sampedro

On a day like today, February 1 but in 1917, the endearing and good writer of novels was born, as "The Etruscan smile", Jose Luis Sampedro. In addition to being a writer, he was a humanist and a great Spanish economist, but not about the economy that is only known today, but about the human economy, the one with the most solidarity that advocates helping the most disadvantaged and not the one that continues to bulge the pockets of the poor. More rich.

We can divide his work into 4 types: Short stories, novels, economics and others, which we will summarize below.

Tales

Short stories only wrote two, publishing them one after another, in consecutive years. These were: "Sea at the bottom", published in 1992 and «As the earth turns », published in 1993.

Novels

In the novel genre he was more prolific:

• "The statue of Adolfo Espejo" (written in 1939 but published many years ago, 1994).
• "The shadow of the days" (written in 1947, but not published until 1994, the same year as the previous one).
• "Congress in Stockholm" (1952)
• "The river that takes us" (1961)
• "The naked horse" (1970)
• "October, October" (1981)
• "The Etruscan smile" (1985)
• "The old mermaid" (1990)
• «Royal Site» (1993)
• "The Lesbian Lover" (2000)
• "The path of the dragon tree" (2006)
• "Quartet for a soloist" (2011, novel written in collaboration with Olga Lucas).
• "Mount Sinai" (2012)

About economy

Thanks to authors like him, those of us who have not studied Economics, we have been able to know that another type of doing economics is possible:

• "Practical principles of industrial location" (1957)
• "Economic reality and structural analysis" (1959)
• "The economic forces of our time" (1967)
• "Awareness of underdevelopment" (1973)
• "Inflation: a complete version" (1976)
• "The market and globalization" (2002)
• "The Mongols in Baghdad" (2003)
• «On politics, market and coexistence» (2006)
• «Humanist economics. Something more than figures » (2009)
• "The market and us."

Other works

He also wrote the following works, which although we cannot categorize them in one genre or another, we do not want to go without putting them:

• "Writing is living" (2005, autobiographical book written in collaboration with Olga Lucas).
• "The necessary writing" (2006, an essay-dialogue about his novelistic work and his life).
• "Science and life" (2008, dialogue with the cardiologist Valentín Fuster, again with the collaboration of Olga Lucas).
• "Reaction to" (2011)

Phrases he said and video

But there is no better way to remember a person, especially if he has been a wise person who has left great phrases and knowledge to the world, than to remember what he said or wrote one day. It is for this reason that I bring you some of his phrases and a video where José Luis Sampedro himself is seen speaking. Highly recommended!

• "They educate us to be producers and consumers, not to be free men."

• “Governing based on fear is very effective. If you threaten people that you are going to cut their throats, then you don't cut their throats, but you exploit them, you hook them to a car… They will think; well, at least he didn't cut our throats. "

• "Without freedom of thought, freedom of expression is useless."

• "One writes on the basis of being a miner of oneself."

• Happiness doesn't interest me. But not demanding too much makes it easier to get along with yourself, which is my substitute for happiness.

• "There are two types of economists: those who work to make the rich richer and those who work to make the poor less poor."

• Time is not money; gold is worth nothing, time is life.

• "The current system is dominated by three other magic words: Productivity, competitiveness and innovation, which should be replaced by sharing, cooperation and recreation."

• «In April 1939 I realized that mine had not won. Neither one nor the other were mine.

• Even if you lie to me, tell me you love me. I repeated it to him, and many sweet things… (…) Surely it was happy, yes, surely… It was pretty, you know? ; making happy is beautiful… ».

In these phrases it can be seen that José Luis Sampedro cared little about wealth, for him, a rich soul was one who knew how to share, who knew how to treat others with respect, who knew how to live making the most of every minute that life gave him. He granted ... Because for him, the greatest treasure was life, and having someone to share it with.