Josep Maria Tallada i Paulí

José Maria Tallada Paulí (9 July 1884 – 1 July 1946) was a Spanish economist, professor, politician, demographer, and sports leader. He was a director of the Banco de Vizcaya, a university professor, and a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for the Regionalist League. He published several works throughout his life, including volumes on economics, urban planning, sociology and statistics, being the introducer to Catalonia of Taylorism, statistical analysis, and the methods of the German historical school in social sciences. and worked as a football referee.

Early life and education Tallada was born in Barcelona on 9 July 1884, During the Second Spanish Republic, Tallada was a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for the Regionalist League, but then during the Spanish Civil War, he joined the nationalist party, FET y de las JONS. Under his leadership, Museu Social organized exhibitions, conferences, courses, a statistics service, and created a job exchange in 1911, the first Catalan cooperative of cheap houses (1911), and the Secretariat of Learning (1915), an entity that would evolve towards the formation of an Institute of Professional Orientation (1919). Under Hardoy, the club achieved positive results both off and on the field, reaching the final of the 1915 Copa del Rey against Athletic Bilbao, but despite some encouraging first steps in the white club, it was possibly the fact of losing the 1915 Cup final that caused a convulsive situation within the entity that led to some of its members to call for new elections in November 1915, in which José María Bernadas was elected president. He then visited Zamora's parents to ask them for permission to let their son travel to Madrid by train for a friendly match against Madrid FC, which they declined, so Tallada insisted and eventually convinced them after promising them that he would also go and take care of the boy, who thus made his debut for Espanyol on 19 April.

Tallada also briefly worked as a referee, overseeing only two matches in the Catalan championship, and the second on 24 October 1915, between FC Barcelona and FC Internacional, which ended in a 5–0 win for the former. He also presided over the Catalan Football Federation in 1914–15, replacing Narciso Deop and then being replaced by Ricardo Cabot.

Works El moviment social durant el segle xix, 1911 Anuari d’Estadística Social de Catalunya, 1913 Las cooperativas de producción y de consumo, 1915 Les doctrines de P. J. Proudhom, 1918 Demografia de Catalunya, 1918 L’organització científica de la indústria, 1922 Moneda y Crédito, 1926 La desinflació monetària, 1930 Imprenta de la Casa Provincial de Caritat, 1930 Les crisis econòmiques, 1931 El comercio y la industria de Cataluña y la solidaridad económica nacional, 1934 La crisi d’una civilització, 1934 L’organització econòmica de la Rússia soviètica, 1935 La política económica en los tiempos de crisis: cursillo profesado en la Universidad de Salamanca durante el ejercicio académico 1937-1938, 1940 Técnica y Economía, 1942 Barcelona económica y financiera, 1944 El ciclo económico y el paro forzoso, 1945 Historia de las finanzas españolas en el siglo xix, 1946 La guerra económica, 1948 Note: All of these works were published in Barcelona, sept for the last two, which were published in Madrid.