This article examines the place occupied by the Cuban Revolution in the British New Left by contextualizing the historical and ideological parameters that conformed the British New Left in the 1960s and exploring the extent to which the Cuban Revolution participated in its formative process....

Over the last decades of the XX century, many once outstanding consumer co-operative movements disappeared without trace, beginning with Holland (1972) and Belgium, affecting more than half the French movement in 1985/86, and even including giants such as the German Coop AG in 1989/90. The...

This article presents the results of research into the cooperative movement in Ecuador. After analysing the historical background, it describes the development and current situation of the movement, and discusses its weaknesses and future prospects. It also examines the role of the State in its...

El artículo, una vez hecha una síntesis de las características del siglo XIV en la Corona de Aragón y Cataluña y de los acontecimientos históricos y económicos más relevantes, ofrece unas líneas sobre el monasterio de Poblet, su creación en 1150 a partir de los terrenos entregados por...

El artículo, tras sintetizar las características del gobierno de los monasterios benedictinos, respecto a su actividad económica en general, analiza la actividad financiera desarrollada por el Monasterio de Silos en la Edad Moderna, y más en concreto durante el período comprendido entre...

Se inicia el trabajo con una breve revisión de los principales factores que a comienzos del siglo XIII limitaban el desarrollo de los registros contables en Italia. Estos factores eran el desconocimiento de la numeración arábiga y del papel, así como la precaria situación socioeconómica de...

Economic literature first turned its attention to the co-operative movement in the period of the flowering of classical political economics. From then on and to the present day, co-operatives have aroused the interest of the different currents of economic thought. In this article we review the...

This article presents and discusses the hypothesis and results of Acemoglu and his colleagues, regarding the colonial origin of development, and reviews the main historical facts of that period to show the scope and limitations of his theory regarding Spanish-America. When the correlation...