"In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists,...

Chapter 1. Introduction. A Millennial View of Spain’s Development -- Part I: Growth and Well-being -- Chapter 2. Growth Recurring in Preindustrial Economy -- Chapter 3. Capital Accumulation -- Chapter 4. Productivity Growth -- Chapter 5. Inequality and Poverty -- Part II. Spain in the Global...

This paper develops a two-sector model with specific factors of production à la Ricardo-Viner-Jones, in which agriculture is subject to diminishing returns and market-clearing wages, while increasing returns and efficiency wage mechanisms prevail in industry. The asymmetric interaction of the...