Muriel Casals i Couturier (6 April 1945 – 14 February 2016) was a

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economist with both Spanish and French nationality.

Biography

She was born in Avignon, France. Couturier was a professor in the Department of Economics and Historical Economics in the

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(UAB), where she was also vice dean of

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and Cooperation between 2002 and 2005. She specialized in industrial reconversions, the history of economic thought and European economics. Casals was also the representative of the UAB in the

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(Vives University Networks) between 2002 and 2009. She had been a visiting professor at the

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, the

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and the

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at Bangor. She was a frequent collaborator with the weekly

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and the Economics and Business program on Catalunya Informació. She was a member of the Council of the Catalan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1983–1988), and member of the Catalan Council of the

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. She was a member of the board of the Ateneu Barcelonès (2003–2007). She served on the board of

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between 2008 and 2015, and had been its president since 10 March 2010. On 9 September 2011 she received the Premi Identitat, as part of the Nit d'Identitat organized by the group Identitat from Cornellà. Casals died in

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on 14 February 2016 due to complications from being hit by a bicycle.

References

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