Portuguese economist and politician
Francisco Anacleto Louca
(
Portuguese pronunciation:
[f????si?ku
lo?s??]
; born 12 November 1956) is a
Portuguese
economist
and
politician
.
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Biography
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He is the second son of Antonio Seixas Louca, a
Portuguese Navy
Officer
, and his wife Noemia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, granddaughter of Antonio Neves Anacleto, from
Silves
, brother of Isabel Maria, Antonio, Joao Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of
Vitor Gaspar
, former
Minister of Finances
at the right winged
Pedro Passos Coelho
's government.
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Louca was an active opponent of the pre-democracy regime. He was arrested for a protest against the colonial war in 1972, before the fall of the dictatorship, which lasted in Portugal for about forty years and finished with the
Carnation Revolution
, (25 April 1974). In 1999, after pursuing his academic career, he helped found the
left-wing
party
Left Bloc
(Portuguese:
Bloco de Esquerda
).
Career
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He is a Full Professor of Economics in Lisbon's
Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao
(Direct Translation - "Higher Institute of Economics and Management", officially in English - "Lisbon School of Economics and Management"), which belongs to the
University of Lisbon
(formerly
Technical University of Lisbon
) and was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.
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He is the author of several books and scientific articles on the history of economic thought, the dynamics of
complex adaptive systems
and the nature of long-term techno-economic change, including "Turbulence in Economics" (Elgar, 1997), "As Time Goes By" (with
Christopher Freeman
,
Oxford University Press
, 2011 and 2002, translated into Portuguese, Chinese), "The Years of High Econometrics" (Routledge, 2007) and a number of papers in scientific journals in economics, mathematical physics, history of economic ideas, mathematical modeling of financial markets, history of biology. His scientific books are translated into eleven languages. In 1999 he was awarded the prize for the best scientific paper of the year, "History of Economics Association".
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Candidate in the
Portuguese 2006 presidential elections
, Louca received 288,224 votes (5.31%).
Francisco Louca is one of the five personalities elected by the Assembly of the Republic to the Council of State on 18 December 2015, and he took office on 12 January 2016, serving until 2022. He is also the first (and so far only) member of
Left Bloc
to accede to this body.
2006 Portuguese presidential election
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Francisco Louca finished fifth with 292,198 votes (5.32%).
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References
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- ^
Interview
by Mark Bergfeld at
MRZINE
, 13 May 2005
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Raphael Minder,
"Rising Left Bloc in Portugal Could Threaten Austerity Drive"
,
The New York Times
, 8 November 2015.
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Raphael Minder,
"Portugal’s Government Ousted in Challenge to Austerity"
,
The New York Times
, 10 November 2015.
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"Portuguese MPs force minority government to quit over austerity"
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Francisco Louca,
Texts
at
Ideas
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Francisco Louca,
Articles
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As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution
? paper by Chris Freeman and Francisco Louca at
Oxford Scholarship
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Francisco Louca,
Publications
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Francisco Louca,
The Years of High Econometrics
(A short history of the generation that reinvented economics) ? paper,
Routledge
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Comissao Nacional de Eleicoes
Archived
21 August 2012 at the
Wayback Machine
(2006)
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