This article analyses the economic entries of Enciclopedia Moderna, the first encyclopaedia to be written in Spanish. The selection, nature, and content of the economic entries in this encyclopaedia are carefully studied and particular attention is paid to its central role as a means of...

This article tackles with the economic content of the Spanish encyclopaedic literature of the 18th Century. After having analysed the genealogy of the dictionaries of commerce of the European Enlightenment, the paper studies the Spanish projects, as well as the economic content of the Spanish...

«Reflexiones sobre el estado actual del comercio de España» —Reflections on the current state of commerce in Spain— was anonymously published in 1761. At the time both the treatise and its author, the merchant Simón de Aragorri, were well known. Nevertheless, the work vanished for...

This paper contains a brief presentation of the economic history of Spain. It also analyzes the Spanish legislation and practice in several legal areas that are key to define the current profile of Spanish Economic Law (Trade, Investment, Financial Regulation, Insurance, Stock Exchanges,...