The author attempts to show areas in which historical research and historical facts affected economic thinking and knowledge in economics. We may meet with a similarity of an historical approach to reality at some schools of economic thinking based on empirical inductive research approach and on...

Este analiza detenidamente el registro estadístico ferroviario en Andalucía durante el siglo XX. Las características territoriales y administrativas de la región andaluza, y de las compañías ferroviarias que operaron en esta zona del sur de España, permite hacer un balance del sistema...

Two savings banks are currently active in the Canary Isles: Caja Rural de Tenerife and Caja Rural de Canarias, and these are furthermore the only two loan co-operatives in the region. And as they are also virtually the only loan co-operatives that have been successful, to talk about the economic...

In this work it is analyzed the evolution and composition of the foreign Spanish trade of cork products during the second half of the XIXth century and the XXth century. For it there has been in use the Estadística del Comercio Exterior de España, elaborated from 1849 up to the current...

Este artículo hará un breve recuento histórico del tema de la protección a la libre competencia a nivel internacional y de la lógica de la acción pública para asegurar la libre competencia, para luego centrarse en la experiencia histórica de Chile, que en estricto rigor data en el mejor...

President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo came into power in 1952 to restore price stability and to end corruption. Soon, however, inflation was running at about 80 per cent per year and government invited Klein-Saks, the prestigious U.S. based consulting firm, to design and implement an...

RESUMEN: En el presente documento utilizamos las caricaturas económicas que aparecieron en el principal periódico colombiano entre 1928 y 1937 (El Tiempo), como una fuente primaria válida para el análisis de las tensiones que los fenómenos y situaciones económicas generaron en Colombia en...

This text examines the economic consequences that there brought the war of independence of Peru in the short one and the long term. It examines which was the trend or economic cycle in the twilights of the colonial period, which were the costs of the war and which was the economic politics...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the historical importance of both the “Andean cycle” (1899-1945) and the “October cycle” (1945-1948 y 1958-1989) in order to determine the checks and balances between both of them and the new Bolivarian cycle started 1999. The paper contains...

This study investigates the productivity differences and its sources across a set of banks during the last years of the liberal era of the Spanish banking system (1900-1914). These years were characterised by major qualitative and quantitative changes in the banking industry including a sharp...