Romà Perpinyà Grau is considered to be one of the best Spanish economists of the first half of the XX century. He received the Prince of Asturias Awards of Social Sciences in 1981. He is the author of a suggestive model about dynamics of the patterns of trade between the different geographic areas of Spain and of the basic variables of its growth. Its main book is ‘De Economía Hispánica’ (‘About Spanish Economics’) and its first publication was 80 years ago. 

The event of tribute will be in charge of Jordi Palafox, full university professor of History and Economic Institutions of the Universitat de València.

Romà Perpinyà Grau
Reus (1902-1991), graduated in Economic Sciences in the first promotion of the University of Deusto, he extended his studies in Germany with a grant given by the Spanish Board for the Expansion of Studies. Its main book is ‘De Economía Hispánica’ (‘About Spanish Economics’) and its first publication was 80 years ago. 

Originally published in Germany in 1935, it was later edited in Spain in five different occasions (between 1936 and 1992). All of it is a strong allegation against the continual isolation of the Spanish economy, initiated at the end of the XIX century and supporting its integration to the rest of the European economy.

He developed teaching assignments at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and Complutense University of Madrid. Among his students there are some of the most distinguished personalities of the Spanish economy, such as Enrique Fuentes Quintana, Ramon Tamames and Juan Velarde Fuertes.

He was living in Valencia between 1929 and 1940 when he was a key element of the Centre of Valencian Economy Studies, an initiative that started in 1929 to achieve what was called at that moment ‘a Valencian economic criterion’. His role, predominantly technical, allowed to give to the vindications of the economical groups a strong argument and statistics that they did not have until then. In 1981 he was invested as ‘honoris causa’ by the Universitat de València.