This paper examines the development of a new form of accounting system which was introduced at the Monastery of Guadalupe around 1597. Increasing financial pressure on those charged with the management of the economic activities of the Monastery necessitated the development of an accounting...

1. The Economic Growth of Spain: A Very Long-Term Perspective -- 2. From Empire to Peripheral Economy (1789–1840) -- 3. The Impact of European Industrialization: The Double Failure of Agrarian and Industrial Strategies (1840–1890) -- 4. Spain in the First Economic Globalization (1890–1914)...

The article reconsiders the growth of Italian industry from the First World War to the eve of the economic miracle, with the aid of sector-specific new value-added series, at three different price-bases. The new estimates reduce growth during the First World War, making the Italian case...

This book provides a rigorously chronological journey through the economic history of modern Spain, always with an eye opened to what happens in the international economy and a focus on economic policy making and institutional change. It shows the central theme of the Spanish economy from the...