Showing papers in "Investigaciones de Historia Económica in 2013"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new dataset on regional prices in Early Modern Spain, 1651-1800, for which the prices of some selected goods for the period 1651−1800 are reconstructed, analysed and published.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the mid-to-longterm impact of regional development policies during Franco's dictatorship, particularly the growth poles between 1964 to 1975, and evaluate the effect of growth poles on the industrial growth of those provinces where this instrument of economic policy was applied.

TL;DR: Boldizzoni's attack on cliometrics is unpersuasive, in part because he does not grasp economics and its uses as discussed by the authors, and also because he admires uncritically the German Historical School and their modern descendants, the French Annalistes.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of 3,343 guild master diplomas obtained by journeymen in eighteenth-century Madrid reveals a diverse pattern of access to mastership and the majority of skilled workforce had not been born in the city, nor were they guildmasters' sons.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the impact of free-banking on the banking sector in Latin America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and found that in most Latin American countries the adoption of free banking laws did not cause an increase in bank entry and in bank output growth.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the cooperativismo vitivinicola in a pequeno campesinado is presented, in which a bodega cooperativa is used to implement a proyecto totalmente autonomo.

TL;DR: In this paper, Cajas constituyen un excelente caso de estudio debido a que incorporaron intensivamente tecnologia, especialmente a partir de los anos 60.

TL;DR: A book that reflects on the state-of-the-art in economic history and discusses the different approaches of current and past research is highly welcome as mentioned in this paper, and every attempt to bridge the gap, to critically approach and to promote the link between history and economics is a welcome contribution.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the relationship existente entre the gasto publico and the crecimiento economico in the periodo 1850-2000, showing that the latter determino unidireccionalmente the politica fiscal, al menos hasta que the incremento del tamano del sector publico, impulsado by las reformas democraticas, provocó un cambio in the direccion del gasto privateo al crecíncio economico.

TL;DR: The authors present a vision del sector desde un punto de vista particular, that a estos efectos consideramos especialmente relevante al coincidir en la misma persona, durante 10 anos, the direccion general de esta empresa con la presidencia de la Asociacion Nacional de Cerveceros.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of Franco's autarchic policy (1939-1959) on the delay in the technological advance of the Spanish textile industry was analyzed based on official data from patents, textile machinery imports, and various comparative estimates on the efficiency of the textile industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trabajo testamos como se inserta esta red de inversion en una red mayor, la de los principales inversores de Cataluna en el periodo 1815-1866, asi como el papel que desempenaron los principalales directivos del Banco en esa red maior.

TL;DR: In this paper, Boldizzoni de resucitar una aproximacion historica realista no abstracta a la historia economica esta fundamentado, es retoricamente valioso and muy persuasivo, pero carece de algunas dimensiones that son cruciales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare three firms with different characteristics located in Manresa (Barcelona), an industrial city with district behavior in certain sectors, and explain the mechanisms of development and spreading of innovation, and its close relation with the generation of external economies.

TL;DR: The paper takes issue with the views expressed by Luis Bertola, Christopher Lloyd and Deirdre McCloskey in their commentaries and concludes that faith in the inborn nature of the market economy is misplaced and due to cognitive distortions.

TL;DR: In this article, a lectura economica de la obra de Thomas Hobbes, dirigida a entender conductas morales como resultado of equilibrios de mercado, se muestra usando Teoria de Juegos el surgimiento de conducta morales in un escenario anterior a la formacion del Estado.

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TL;DR: In this article, a trabajo analyzes the proceso de desindustrializaci del sector textil castellano-leones in Castilla and Leon during the first half of the 20th century.