Xosé Manuel Beiras
| Xosé Manuel Beiras | |
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| Deputy in the Galician Parliament | |
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Assumed office 13 November 2012 |
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| Constituency | A Coruña |
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| Born |
Xosé Manuel Hixinio Beiras Torrado April 7, 1936 Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Political party |
Galician Left Alternative Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood Galician Nationalist Bloc (1982–2012) Galician Socialist Party (1963-1977) |
| Alma mater | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Profession | Economist |
Xosé Manuel Hixinio Beiras Torrado (born 7 April 1936) is a Galician politician, economist, writer and intellectual. He is professor of Structural Economy at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Former member of the National Council of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG in the Galician acronym), he is at present leader of ANOVA-Irmandade Nacionalista, an independentist political party with representation in the Galician parliament.
Beiras graduated in Law in 1958 at the University of Santiago de Compostela. That same year he moved to Paris to study economics. He also studied French literature at the University of the Sorbonne (1960). In 1961 he joined the London School of Economics to further expand his knowledge on the field of economy. In 1966 he completed a research course on economics with François Perrou at the Institut de Sciencie Economique Apliquée (Paris). While in France, he became acquainted with Robèrt Lafont's concept of "internal colonialism", a concept that would embed his political discourse in the years to come.
He was the vice-director of the Revista de Economia da Galiza ("Galician Journal of Economics") from 1963 to 1968. In 1967 he was granted with a prize from Casa Galiza of New York City for his book O problema do desenrolo na Galiza rural (The Problem of Development in Rural Galicia). In 1968 he moved back to Galicia permanently, where he took up a job as lecturer in economy at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 1970, while spending a few months in Madrid, he published his doctoral thesis with the title Estructura y problemas de la poblacion gallega ("Structure and problems of the Galician population"). This thesis granted him the post of associate-professor in Structural Economy.
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