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
.
