The Obituary Section

Anwar Shaikh

, New York

Anwar Shaikh a towering figure in political economy and Professor Emeritus of Economics at The New School for Social Research died on October 6 in New York. He was 80. Shaikh was born in Karachi Pakistan. Because his father served in the Pakistan Foreign Service he spent many of his formative years in Asia the Middle East and Turkey. He completed his higher education in the United States earning an engineering degree from Princeton University in 1965 and a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1973. Shaikh was one of his generations foremost economists working in the tradition of classical political economy and drawing on Adam Smith David Ricardo Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. Within that broad framework for understanding capitalist economies he made important contributions in many fields. These included the dynamics of competition among firms the conflict between business owners and workers over the distribution of…

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Hector D. Martinez

, New York

of July in 1938 on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico in the town of Camuy to Felipe Martnez Jimenez and Ana Rivera Olavarria. He was the second son of twelve children and was raised and worked on his family farm while attending school. He moved to NYC when he was 18 and began working different jobs where he developed various skills a strong work ethic and a witty sense of humor. Eventually he spent the last 40 years of his career working at a textile company in downtown Manhattan and by the time he retired at 65 he was Manager of Domestic and International Import and Export of goods. Soon after moving to NYC he met the Love of his Life Sonia with whom he shared 60 wonderful years of marriage until she predeceased him in October 2019. Hector is survived by his 4 children Ana Hector II Lus…

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