This dissertation has been made within a PhD program at the University of Seville, Department of Applied Economics and Economic History, aiming at the Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA); an intermediate degree prior to the doctorate. This work is an attempt to compile and shape the fledgling...

This work aims to shedding light on the nature and causes of severe unemployment in the Spanish region of Andalusia — 34 per cent of the active population, three times the EU average. Far from explanations based on neoclassical economics or external to the region or simply truisms, I sought...

This article is an empirical inquiry into the nature and causes of the preservation and reuse of railway heritage from a comparative point of view. It addresses the question of why this heritage is not preserved in Andalusia (Spain). Railway heritage is a mixed good, as a public good requires...

The industry of olive and olive oil has a sizeable weight in Andalusia since the ancient times. In the period of Roman Betica, the industry was the economic base of some very influential families in the arena of high politics. Hadrian, the emperor, was born in a wealthy family with interests in...

From the point of view of economic history and microeconomic theory, we carried out an enquiry on the state of the railway heritage in the province of Huelva and surveyed the chances of their preservation and/or reuse with cultural purposes, i.e. as tourist attractions. This heritage is the...

A few years before the loss of Spain’s last colonies overseas civil society and political powers in the province of Huelva made a joint bid for the construction of a secondary railway between the capital and Ayamonte. They were well aware of both their peripheral location and their laggard...

Palestine is diverse from a cultural point of view, a multi-religious country with important remains from different historical periods. The cultural diversity is the wealth of the countries, a principle stressed by the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural...