Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial: Enviaments recents
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Cooperativismo, movilización campesina y dinámica política en un área neurálgica de la lucha rabassaire (1919-1924)
El cooperativismo vitivinícola se desarrolló en Cataluña en un momento de auge de la lucha social y política de los rabassaires. Las exitosas campañas electorales de Lluís Companys, el principal organizador de la Unión de ...
Dos modelos de especialización ganadera en el último siglo: el Vallès Oriental, 1920-2020
A lo largo del siglo xx, el crecimiento urbano y los cambios en las pautas alimentarias impulsaron una expansión de la producción ganadera, especialmente en las áreas rurales más próximas a las grandes ciudades donde se ...
Parenting styles: the role of beliefs, preferences, and constraints - a study protocol
We describe the protocol of a study designed to elicit subjective expectations that influence parenting style choices in a lower-middle-income country. We combine a survey experiment with a theoretical model to examine the ...
Degrowth scenarios for biodiversity? Key methodological steps and a call for collaboration
Studies show that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss and that, after a certain threshold, it does not contribute to wellbeing. Thus, when developing biodiversity scenarios, considering societal futures where ...
Roldán de Montaud, Inés y Pablo Martín-Aceña. 2023. La banca en las colonias españolas: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. Madrid: Marcial Pons Ediciones Historia, 456 pp.
Revisión del libro: Roldán de Montaud, Inés y Pablo Martín-Aceña. 2023. La banca en las colonias españolas: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. Madrid: Marcial Pons Ediciones Historia, 456 pp
Finanzas e Industrialización en España
La financiación de la industria es siempre una cuestión abierta. ¿Quién? ¿Cómo? ¿Cuándo?, son preguntas necesarias para completar una visión del proceso de industrialización, más allá de aspectos tecnológicos, organizativos, ...
Food sharing governance in European cities: insights from a scoping review
Food sharing initiatives (FSI) are rapidly growing in urban areas and present new opportunities to shape more sustainable urban food systems through collaborative efforts. These initiatives operate within a governance ...
Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
Identifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available ...
Electoral dynamics and public primary education spending in a semi-democratic regime: Spain 1902–1922
This paper examines whether the democratic shortcomings of Restoration Spain influenced the expansion of education spending. Specifically, we discuss how electoral outcomes conditioned the allocation of primary education ...
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: A new method with an application to school meals
Poverty reduction and nutrition are often joint outcomes of many public policies and programs which have education as their primary outcome. Quantification of overall benefits for these programs in a common metric is ...
The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
We use multi-regional input–output analysis to calculate the paid labour, energy, emissions, and material use required to provide basic needs for all people. We calculate two different low-consumption scenarios, using the ...
Commerce and Security Meet in the European Union’s Trade Defence Instruments
Mercantilist policies, protectionism, Chinese and US violations of the spirit—if not always the rules—of the World Trade Organization, along with supply chain vulnerabilities, trade wars, and illegal state subsidies have ...
Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism
Capitalist globalisation has shown the need to define the semi-periphery as a new category that transcends the traditional core–periphery division. This paper aims to characterise this new category and understand the role ...
John R. McNeill y Alan Roe (eds.), Global Environmental History. An Introductory Reader, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2013, xxvi y 449 pp. [Ressenya de llibre]
La historia ambiental (mejor que el aún utilizado y pleonástico calificativo de «medioambiental») ya no es una materia recién llegada a los medios académicos. Este libro, que intenta difundir la historia ambiental global, ...
For the public benefit? Railways in the British Cape Colony
Built largely to support the early mining industry, the Cape Colony's railway substantially reduced the cost of transport to the interior and account for 22-25 percent of the increase in the Colony's labor productivity ...
Daron Acemoglu y James A. Robinson. El pasillo estrecho: Estados, sociedades y cómo alcanzar la libertad. Barcelona, Deusto, 2019, 688 págs., ISBN-10: 8423430812 [Ressenya de llibre]
¿Cómo y por qué algunas sociedades han alcanzado la libertad y otras no? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de no alcanzarla? Estas son las preguntas en torno a las cuales gira el último libro de Acemoglu y Robinson. Para ofrecer ...
Whyte, Jessica; The morals of the market. Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism. Ed. Verso, 2019 (278 pp.) ISBN-13:978-1-78663-311-8 [Ressenya de llibre]
El excelente libro de Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market. Humans Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, explica en lógica gramsciana cómo la ideología neoliberal se ha convertido en hegemónica, gracias a dotarse de una ...
The biological standard of living in La Paz (Bolivia), 1880s-1920s: Persistent stagnation and inequality
Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in the city of La Paz (Bolivia) for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis ...
En el centenari de la Primera Guerra Mundial. L'hostaletenc Josep Raventós i Casals, un internacionalista a la pàtria de Jean Jaurès
L'any passat es va commemorar el centenari de l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial, un conflicte armat que es va desenvolupar principalment en territori europeu entre l'agost de 1914 i primers de novembre de 1918, moment ...
Kim Anderson and Vicente Pinilla (Eds.) Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 546 pp. [Ressenya de llibre]
This book is an engaging account of the global wine sector and its performance during the last two centuries. Leading scholars in the field have surveyed fifteen chapters divided into two parts (traditional markets and ...
