Ernest Lluch Martín, (21 January 1937 – 21 November 2000) was a Spanish economist and politician, member of the

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(PSC). He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982 to 1986 in the first

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(PSOE) government of

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. He was assassinated in 2000 by the Basque separatist organisation,

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Background

Lluch was born in

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(UB), and studied further at the

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. While he was a lecturer at the UB, he was arrested on several occasions and expelled from the university because of his anti-francoist political activity. From this position, he published seminal works on Spanish political economy. He held the Chair of Economics at the

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(1974) and the Chair of History of Economic Doctrines at the UB. His last official position was as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, from 1989 to 1995.

Later career and death

In April 1980 he was chosen as spokesman of the

(PSC) to the

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, and, two years later, in the 1982 general election, he was elected member of the Lower House in representation of

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appointed him as Minister of Health and Consumption in his first government. He held the post until 1986. In May 1986 he retired from politics to resume the chair of History of Economic Doctrines of the University of Barcelona. On 2 January 1989 he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander. He was assassinated by ETA, who shot him twice in the head at his home in

, in 2000. The crime was claimed by the ETA's so-called Comando Barcelona, formed by Fernando García Jodrá, alias 'Txomin', Liarni Artmendaritz and José Antonio Krutxaga. In 2002, the three members of the Commando were arrested and sentenced by the Spanish National High Court to 33 years in prison for the murder.

Bibliography

* ''El pensament econòmic a Catalunya (1760-1849)''. Edicions 62, 1973. * ''La via valenciana''. Editorial Tres i Quatre, 1976 (Premi Joan Fuster d'assaig, 1975) * ''La Catalunya vençuda del segle XVIII. Foscors i clarors de la Il·lustració''. Edicions 62, 1996. * ''Las Españas vencidas del siglo XVIII''. Editorial Crítica, 1999. * ''L'alternativa catalana (1700-1714-1740). Ramon de Vilana i Perlas i Juan Amor de Soria: teoria i acció austriacistes''. Eumo Editorial, 2000. * ''La passió per la música. Recerques d'un melòman il.lustrat''. CCG Edicions, 2004.

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Background

Later career and death

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