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Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 : Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

Grafe, Regina - 2012

Main description: Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated … Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that … powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated …

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Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain

Thomas, Hugh - 2009

immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a …

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A unifying enlightenment : institutions of political economy in eighteenth-century Spain (1700-1808)

Astigarraga, Jesús - 2021

"This book is the result of a research process of long durée. Entirely original material rubs shoulders with other work that has already seen the light of day in the form of previous versions of articles and chapters in books, normally in languages other than English. Some of the earlier...

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Crisis in the Eurozone periphery : the political economies of Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal

Parker, Owen (ed.); Tsarouhas, Dimitris (ed.) - 2018

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China's long-term economic development : how have economy and governance evolved since 500 BC?

Zhao, Hongjun - 2018

This book takes a long-term perspective to examine the evolution of Chinese governance and its lasting impact on Chinese economic development. Through its broad exploration of the style, strength, and effectiveness of Chinese governance through the years, it touches on a universal relationship...

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China's long-term economic development : how have economy and governance evolved since 500BC?

Zhao, Hongjun - 2018

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Debate and comment about the needham puzzle over the past half-century -- 3. The behavior of the peasants and their households: the logical starting point for the study of the puzzle in Chinese economic history -- 4. The petty peasant economy and the formation of...