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Carlito Tabia Añonuevo
"Tolits," "Lito"
PSHS Batch 1972
Birth: Sept. 4, 1955
Place: Lumban, Laguna
Death: February 4, 2007
To many, the name Carlito Añonuevo will not ring a bell. A Google search of the name does not yield a very big number of results. The top results from Google pertain to his co-authorship of position papers of Action for Economic Reforms (AER), his short stint as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and his being an alumnus of the Philippine Science High School. An odd item was about his visit to Burma in 1999 wherein he delivered a speech at the executive committee meeting of the Center for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and the Pacific, which he chaired.
Lito or Tolits—that was how his barkada called him—was never a mainstream person. He was unconventional in many ways. In appearance, he sported long hair, often in a pony tail, and wore leather sandals even on formal occasions.
Even the name Tolits was out of the ordinary. He was a product of abnormal times, including the First Quarter Storm of 1970. In fact, his friends from his high school days at Pisay (Philippine Science High School) also had uncommon names... They were an unusual lot, high school rebels who nonchalantly joined street demonstrations and barricades and frequented beerhouses and the Fun Center in Cubao. The best of them, including Tolits, were then too young to be recruited to the Communist Party....
... Tolits was a formally trained economist, obtaining his undergraduate degree from the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines (UP) and his master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Within the profession, however, his name rarely cropped up during private conversations and public discussions, even though he was recognized as one of the few competent and respected natural resource economists in the country.
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... The subjects that Tolits loved to teach—math economics and economic history--reflect his qualities as an economist. Through math economics, he taught students to become rigorous and to appreciate the elegance and neatness of the models. But Tolits knew the limits of abstraction, that in many cases formal models cannot explain the complexity of the real world. He thus would turn to economic history to show how relevant and useful the unconventional, heterodox ideas are.
- from "Carlito T. Añonuevo," article by Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III, published in the Opinion Section, Yellow Pad Column of Business World, February 12, 2007 edition, page S1/4, reposted in the Action for Economic Reforms website
above: Sol and Lito planting rice
photos courtesy of wife Mrs. Carolyn Añonuevo
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