Introduction -- Adam Smith and the Free Market -- The Concepts of Private, Public and Merit Goods -- Business Ethics and Eleven Categories of Merit Goods -- The Ethical and Socio-political Dimensions of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and the Subsequent Recession -- Conclusion

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. 1808: The Napoleonic Wars and the Loss of the American Colonies -- Chapter 3. 1898: The “Fin de siècle” crisis -- Chapter 4. 1936: Frustrated hopes: the Great Depression, the Second Republic, and the Civil War -- Chapter 5. 1959: The Stabilization Plan...

This book analyses the main historical turning points in the Spanish economy and the related challenges it faced. It focuses on six turning points that changed the direction of the Spanish economy, and identifies the economic, social or political origin of these watersheds. It also compares the...