Fernando Cardim de Carvalho passed away on May 16 at his residence in Cascais. Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Cardim de Carvalho was an economist and researcher respected throughout the world. In recent years he had participated on several occasions in initiatives we developed at ISEG, in particular he was responsible for a course at the ISEG Summer School 2015and delivered several lectures to PhD and MSc students, the last of which took place on December 7, 2017. Having spent two years at the Levy Economics Institute, Bart College, New York, he returned to Portugal in July 2017. Shortly thereafter, in the context of the effort aimed at the increasing internationalization of research in our School, we presented him with the proposal to undertake a part-time contract with ISEG, which was received very enthusiastically by Fernando. However, in early 2018, he asked us to slow down the process, given the rapid and unpredictable evolution of the disease that was affecting him.
Deeply identified with the Post-Keynesian current, editor of Journal of Post Keynesian EconomicsFernando was an economist of great culture and very open, as shown in his approach to business cycles, namely the last crisis, through a Schumpeterian lens, or his treatment of the subtleties of Axel Leijonhufvud's analysis of the theories and ideas, monetary and others, of J. M. Keynes. Fernando had a characteristic, perhaps rare today, of an economist vitally interested in economic theory and its developments.
We are grateful to Fernando, for the appreciation he expressed for our school and his desire to collaborate with us, and we extend our condolences to his wife Fernanda, who accompanied him several times when he came to ISEG, and to his son Thiago Carvalho and daughter-in-law.
Lisbon, May 18, 2018
Joaquim Ramos Silva
Full Professor
Presidente do Departamento de Economia / Head of Department of Economics
ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management - University of Lisbon
