En las páginas que siguen se estudia, siguiendo las vicisitudes biográficas de un ingeniero militar madrileño y más tarde director de empresas, la formación de un grupo empresarial que se ocupó de la promoción industrial y de la gestión de servicios públicos en las provincias de Granada...

Studies of Spanish cooperatives locate their spread from the Law on Agrarian Syndicates of 1906. But the first legislative appearance of cooperatives is an 1869 measure that permitted general incorporation for lending companies. The 1931 general law on cooperatives, which was the first measure...

Authoritarian Monarchies in the Early Modern period have been considered as a keystone of the outset of the market economy in Europe. However, as a result of their own need of coexistence with other power institutions, it has to be taken into account that those monarchies implied the survival of...

This work proposes a long term outlook in order to investigate the reasons explaining the development and importance of the metal-mechanic sector in Valladolid during the second half of the 20th century. We find that the political decisions after the Spanish Civil War of 1936 are determinant in...

This paper offers an overview of the modern Economic History of an interior Spanish province (Valladolid). It investigates the reasons of the economic retardation of this central region in contrast with the periphery of the country. It also presents the unknown attempts of the local business...

Spanish Abstract: Francisco Suárez es el teólogo más relevante de la escuela española de derecho natural o Escuela de Salamanca en sentido amplio. Según piensa, el derecho de imponer tributos justos reside en exclusiva en la autoridad suprema, sin necesitar el consentimiento de las Cortes....

Taking Cadiz as a case study, this article analyses the changes that took place in the provisioning areas of the Spanish periphery in the second half of the Eighteenth Century and the beginnings of the Nineteenth Century and poses that public regulation of wheat and flour markets through...

En este trabajo se narra un intento relevante, siquiera desde el punto de vista doctrinal, de la historia institucional de la Hacienda: el ambicioso proyecto de reforma de la Contabilidad Pública llevado a cabo por las Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias instaladas en Cádiz durante la invasión...

El estudio de la gestión de las finanzas Municipales permite profundizar en el conocimiento de la funcionalidad y eficiencia de las instituciones en la Edad Moderna. En este trabajo se analiza el caso del patrimonio municipal de Madrid, una parte fundamental de las haciendas locales. Su...

In an earlier essay (North, 1981, Ch. 3) I developed a “Neo-Classical Theory of the State”. This essay elaborates, extends and modifies that essay in three directions: 1. It incorporates time into the model; 2. It is explicitly concerned with the perceptions –the belief systems? that...