Spanish abstract: Este trabajo pretende analizar someramente un evento de lo que consideramos la crisis estructural de la zona euro: el conflicto independentista en Cataluña (2017). Nos concentraremos en el análisis del fenómeno económico, entendiéndolo como consecuencia de la crisis del...

Most of the problems in Spanish public universities come from their complicated and inefficient governance system. This system is sometimes conceived as a simile of the political corps of a nation; sometimes it's conceived as an enterprise not regulated by offer-demand law. A drastic governance...

The Bologna Process: What is its origin? What are the final objectives of this university reform? Who will gain and who will lose by it? You do not have to do sociological research to find out that outside the university world nobody knows anything about it because even inside that world, the...

This research deals with universities in Spain in the last decades of the twentieth century, after which there was a democratization of access to these studies and an increase in female enrollment. Obviously, there was a link between the university and the family income of students, although it...

This paper analyses the standard of living from the New Anthropometric History perspective and compares human height evolution in France and Spain. Firstly, the importance of the height as an indicator to explore the evolution of the biological standard of living in the long‐term is...

This paper aims to explain the evolution of the worker co-operatives phenomenon in Spain, going beyond the mere juxtaposition of the dispersed data in the bibliographic sources available. However, as well as this task, we have tried to establish causal relations at the economic, political and...

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...