Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding "how we got here". Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics...

Anläßlich der hundertsten Wiederkehr von Knut Wicksells Werk "Geldzins- und Güterpreise" (1898) hat sich der Dogmenhistorische Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik auf seiner 18. Tagung dem bedeutenden Ökonomen gewidmet. Insbesondere die noch immer gültige Modernität der Aussagen...

This book analyses the economic history of the company and entrepreneurship in Spain from the 15th century to the present. It evaluates the economic theory, the formation of the figure of the entrepreneur, as well as the structure of the companies. This exploration of the businessmen in Spain...