There have been frequent proposals of ways of economic development based on the de-ruralization of economic activity. Behind them lie the empowerment of other productive sectors and other locations for economic activity. The underlying hypothesis is that the potentialities that induce...

The regulation of the use of water in Spain went through a profound transformation during the first decades of the liberal State. Liberalism introduced institutional changes which affected all those aspects related to the use and administration of water resources. Water property rights were...