Fabián Estapé Rodríguez (14 September 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Spanish economist. He was born in Portbou. Estapé is considered to have been the person who introduced Joseph A. Schumpeter and John Kenneth Galbraith to Spain. He was an emeritus professor of the University of Barcelona, where he was twice "rector" (vice-chancellor), and a visiting professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Barcelona. As a "Comisario Adjunto" special advisor in the "Plan de Desarrollo" development plan he was in the Spanish government under Generalisimo

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...

. Estapé was the author among other works of ''La reforma tributaria de 1845'' (The tax reform of 1845) (1971), ''Ensayos sobre historia del pensamiento económico'' (Essays in the history of economic thought) (1971), ''Una perspectiva española'' (A Spanish view) (1990) and hundreds of articles and studies on

economic policy The economy of governments covers the systems for setting levels of taxation, government budgets, the money supply and interest rates as well as the labour market, national ownership, and many other areas of government interventions into the e ...

and the

history of economics History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

. Notoriously opportunistic from a political viewpoint, before the ''Transición'' he was a major power player within the

neoliberal Neoliberalism (also neo-liberalism) is a term used to signify the late 20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War. A prominent fa ...

clique led by

Laureano López Rodó Laureano López Rodó (18 November 1920 – 11 March 2000) was a Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Commissioner and later Minister for Development Planning during the rule of Francisco Fran ...

during the pragmatic period of economic expansion of the Francoist State and, by his own admission, a highly influential official within the

Francoist State Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spa ...

; during the latter years of the dictatorship, however, he ostensibly switched his allegiances to the leftist social and political milieu, namely to the Workers' Commissions and the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. In 2008 he would publicly recant his past collaboration with Francoist Spain. Estapé died in León, aged 88.

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