Fill in the Blanks A tribute to Jose Luis SampedroOnline version filling gaps by isabel andres dominguez 1 poor has of the Born When key across book also his There when as in standard remembered economics Spanish richer dictatorship asked the commitment Spain's 'indignant' hero Sampedro dies Spanish economist and author Jose Luis Sampedro , one of the figures behind Spain's 'indignant' protest movement against economic inequality and corruption , died , his family said on Tuesday . Sampedro , who advocated a more humane based on ideas of solidarity , passed away overnight on Sunday and remains were cremated on Tuesday morning , his widow Olga Lucas said . " He had that his death be treated without a fuss . I would like him to be for his vitality , his dignity and his fighting spirit , " she told news radio Cadena Ser . in Barcelona in 1917 , Sampedro lived in Tangiers in northern Morocco with his family he was a child . He taught economics at Madrid's Complutense University as well as at universities in Britain and the United States . " are two types of economists : those that work so that the rich become and those like me , who work so that the poor become less , " Sampedro once said . His works include " The Etruscan Smile " ( 1985 ) , " The Economic Forces of Our Time " ( 1967 ) , " Economic Structure " ( 1969 ) , and " Humanist Economics , Beyond Numbers " ( 2009 ) . the grass - roots " indignant " movement emerged in Spain in 2011 , with activists occupying squares the country against the government's handing of the economy , Sampedro emerged as its bearer and took part in several rallies despite his advanced age . " To consider money a supreme good will lead us to catastrophe , " he said in an interview published left - leaning daily newspaper El Pais in June 2011 . Sampedro cemented his bond with protest movement when he wrote the forward for French writer Stephane Hessel's protest essay " Time for Outrage ! " . Hessel died in February at the age of 95 . " I was born in 1917 . I am also outraged . I also experienced war . I also endured a , " Sampedro wrote in the forward to Hessel's book . Sampedro became a member of the Royal Academy in 1990 and in 2010 the Spanish cabinet made him a member of Order of the Arts and Letters for his " remarkable literary trajectory and his to the problems of his time " . A year later , he was awarded the National Prize Spanish Letters .
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