This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement...

The study of Spanish entrepreneurship from a historical perspective is in a very early stage. This paper goes beyond previous ones by specifying a multivariate model for Spain for the whole twentieth century. A Schumpeterian model with the addition of supply, demand and institutional control...