Francisco Louçã
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His Excellency Francisco Louçã |
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| Member of the Council of State | |
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Assumed office 12 January 2016 |
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| Appointed by | Assembly of the Republic |
| President |
Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| Coordinator of the Left Bloc | |
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In office 24 March 1999 – 10 November 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by |
Catarina Martins João Semedo |
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Francisco Anacleto Louçã 12 November 1956 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Left Bloc (since 1999) |
| Other political affiliations |
Revolutionary Socialist Party (1978-1999) Internationalist Communist League (1973-1978) |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Lisbon |
| Profession | Economist, professor |
Francisco Anacleto Louçã (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku loˈsɐ̃]; born 12 November 1956 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese economist , politician and pundit.
He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, grandson of António Neves Anacleto, from Silves, brother of Isabel Maria, António, João Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of Vítor Gaspar, former Minister of Finances at the right winged Pedro Passos Coelho's government.
Louçã 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 fascist dictatorship, which lasted in Portugal for about forty years and finished with the Carnation Revolution, (April 25, 1974). In 1999, after pursuing his academic career, he helped found the left-wing party Left Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda).
He is a Full Professor of Economics in Lisbon's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão ("Higher Institute of Economics and Management"), which belongs to the Technical University of Lisbon and was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.
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 Chris Freeman, Oxford University Press, 2011 and 2002, translated into Portuguese, Russian, 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" (ref. Google Books).
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