Fabián Estapé Rodríguez (14 September 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Spanish

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. He was born in

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. Estapé is considered to have been the person who introduced Joseph A. Schumpeter and

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to Spain. He was an emeritus professor of the

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, 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

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. 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

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and the

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

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

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; during the latter years of the dictatorship, however, he ostensibly switched his allegiances to the leftist social and political milieu, namely to the

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and the

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. In 2008 he would publicly recant his past collaboration with Francoist Spain. Estapé died in León, aged 88.

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