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...

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 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,...

En un trabajo de 1927, Schumpeter llamó a Wicksell (1851-1926) “el Marshall sueco” y dijo de él que “ningún otro de los arquitectos que han plantado los cimientos del análisis moderno tiene hoy día tanto que ofrecernos”. Pese a este juicio, y a que efectivamente hoy se le reconoce...

Se detalla el procedimiento para elaborar estimaciones quinquenales del PIB estatal industrial en México, durante un periodo en el que se carece de información oficial al respecto: 1930-1965. Las estimaciones se desglosan a nivel de rama, para lo cual se siguen métodos indirectos sustentados...

This working paper discusses how natural resource scarcity (aridity, in the case of Spanish agriculture) encouraged the process of frontier expansion defined by Barbier, meaning the exploitation of new, relatively abundant resources (water) for production purposes. Water for irrigated...

El trabajo presenta una estimación de la producción de leña en España desde 1900 hasta la actualidad y presenta por primera vez una evolución coherente de los usos del suelo tanto a escala agregada como a escala provincial. A partir de estos datos se ha podido construir también una serie...

The statistical accuracy of Historical Foreign Trade Sources has been stated by Federico and Tena (1991) and Tena (1985, 19991 y 1992). This article follows his works in the most suspect field: geographical distribution. We have use Latin American Coal Trade Data among 1908-1930. Most...