The Industrial Revolution in National Context

The Industrial Revolution in National Context
Author: Mikulas Teich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1996-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521409407

A volume of essays offering accounts of national experience during the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the USA.

Classical Trade Protectionism 1815-1914

Classical Trade Protectionism 1815-1914
Author: Jean-Pierre Dormois
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2006-11-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134262965

This book summarizes the recent empirical research carried out on the issue of the classical period of trade protectionism. It provides a basis for revising widely held views on the standard effects of tariffs on economic structures and progress.

The Power of Entrepreneurs

The Power of Entrepreneurs
Author: Mercedes Cabrera
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 180073414X

Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various upheavals such as the crisis of the democratic republic and the civil war in the 1930s, the long General Franco dictatorship from the 1940s until the 1970s and the subsequent transition to democracy. From the detailed studies of individual cases, specific companies as well as entrepreneurial organizations, a very diverse picture emerges, contradicting widespread simplistic interpretations of politico-economic linkages, which demonstrates both the pluralism of the economic interests as well as the complexity of their relationship to the political class.

Regulating Spanish Banking, 1939–1975

Regulating Spanish Banking, 1939–1975
Author: Maria Angeles Pons Brias
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 135190535X

Banking regulation has been the subject of intense debate in recent years. This book contributes to that debate in its study of the impact of financial regulation on Spanish banking performance, especially profitability, from the end of the Spanish Civil War to the end of the Franco regime. Maria Pons discusses the Francoist authorities' policy of forced industrialization based on heavy industry, and the huge interventionist apparatus that it set up to involve banks in its industrialistic programme. This included several items of banking legislation related to the fixing of interest rates, the expansion of the sector, mergers and so forth. Pons explains the emergence of this regulatory framework and its development to the mid-1970s, as well as examining in detail the response of the Spanish banks to these regulations, and their attempts to take advantage of the opportunities they offered to reduce competition and uncertainty. The book also analyzes the 1962 reforms and subsequent legizlation and the lack of success they had in reducing public intervention in the banking sector.

An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe

An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe
Author: Ivan Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107030706

A transnational survey of the economic development of Europe, exploring why some regions advanced and some stayed behind.

Historical Dictionary of Spain

Historical Dictionary of Spain
Author: Angel Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538108836

Since Spain’s transition to democracy there has been rapid economic modernization, the establishment of a functioning liberal democracy, and a cultural renaissance. One area in which ordinary Spaniards have noted a massive change since the 1970s has been in the transformation of the road and rail networks, and also in local amenities—from sporting facilities to centers for the aged. Also impressive is the cleanliness of Spanish cities and the efforts put into town planning. And from the 1980s the country also built a successful public health system. As a result, for the first time since the 19th century Spaniards can largely look toward the West without any sense of inferiority (though, in recent years, confidence has been hit by the deep recession of 2008–2011 and the constant corruption scandals). This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Spain contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Spain.

Entrepreneurship in Spain

Entrepreneurship in Spain
Author: Juan Manuel Matés-Barco
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000327191

The figure of the entrepreneur has become a relevant factor that explains the process of growth and economic development. Rising unemployment rates have generated among institutional and private agents, a significant interest in promoting entrepreneurship as a formula to eradicate this social scourge of unemployment. Active policies that favor business culture and initiative are being promoted in all areas. In the university world, academic research has multiplied the work on entrepreneurship, a term that includes a triple meaning: the figure of the entrepreneur, the business function and the creation of companies. This versatile meaning must be based on a consistent theory about the company and the entrepreneur. This book presents specific cases of companies and entrepreneurs that have had their role throughout the history of Spain. The intention is to show the techniques and learning acquired by those agents, which have allowed a considerable advance in the knowledge of the structure and business development. This book brings together the research carried out by its authors with primary sources and makes it accessible to a wide audience—Spanish and Latin American—and will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in Spanish entrepreneurship, business, and management history.

European Industrial Policy

European Industrial Policy
Author: James Foreman-Peck
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198289982

The present study aims to contribute to an understanding of European industrial policy by introducing an historical perspective. National policy continuities and the considerable time over which industrial performance responds to changed environments emerge with greater clarity in the long run. The chapters in this book take a broad view of industrial policy, including those policies that establish the framework', such as competition law, as well as sector for firm specific policies.

A Time of Silence

A Time of Silence
Author: Michael Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998-09-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521594011

An account of the fierce repression and economic misery in wartime Spain 1936-45.

The Development of Modern Spain

The Development of Modern Spain
Author: Gabriel Tortella Casares
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674000940

This reinterpretation of the history of modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the threshold of the twenty-first century explains the surprising changes that took Spain from a backward and impoverished nation, with decades of stagnation, civil disorder, and military rule, to one of the ten most developed economies in the world. The culmination of twenty years' work by the dean of economic history in Spain, founder of the Revista de Historia Económica and recipient of the Premio Rey Juan Carlos, Spain's highest honor for an academic, the book is rigorously analytical and quantitative, but eminently accessible. It reveals views and approaches little explored until now, showing how the main stages of Spanish political history have been largely determined by economic developments and by a seldom mentioned factor: human capital formation. It is comparative throughout, and concludes by applying the lessons of Spanish history to the plight of today's developing nations.