Joaquim Muns i Albuixech

Joaquim Muns Albuixech (born June 25, 1935, in Barcelona – November 2, 2015) was a Catalan economist and lawyer.

Biography He graduated in Law and Economics from the University of Barcelona in 1959, and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 1972. He pursued further studies at the London School of Economics. He was a professor of economic theory at the Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (ESADE), an economics professor (1968–1973), and a professor of International Economic Organization (1973–1978) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona.

Since 1965, he conducted research and specialized in economic issues related to Latin America, especially after his involvement with the International Monetary Fund, where he served as an economist from 1965 to 1968 and as executive director from 1978 to 1980. In 2011, along with Alfredo Pastor, he was awarded the Conde de Godó Journalism Prize.

Works Industrialization and Growth in Developing Countries (1972) Estudio sobre la distribución de funcionas especialmente las de naturaleza económica lo marco de una autonomía regional: aplicaciones a Cataluña (1978) Muns, Joaquín (1986). Historia de las relaciones entre España y el Fondo Monetario Internacional 1958-1982: veinticinco años de economía española (in Spanish). Alianza. Euro y globalización: los grandes retos de la economía española (1999). Albuixech, Joaquim Muns; Muns, Joaquín (2005-10-27). Lecturas de integración económica (3a edic.). La Unión Europea (in Spanish). Edicions Universitat Barcelona.