Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial: Recent submissions
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Sociometabolic research in Latin America: A review on advances and knowledge gaps in agroecological trends and rural perspectives
Current agricultural systems have reached a critical transition point in their biophysical performance, social and environmental impacts, and energy patterns. The theoretical underpinnings of transitions towards sustainable ...
Barry Eichengreen, Un privilège exorbitant. Le déclin du dollar et l'avenir du système monétaire international, Odile Jacob, París, 2011, 280 pp. (original: Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege. The Decline of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System, Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 2011) [Ressenya de llibre]
¿Dónde está el origen del exorbitante privilegio del que ha gozado el dólar durante la segunda parte del siglo xx? ¿Qué ha supuesto para los norteamericanos? ¿Y para el resto del mundo? ¿Existen alternativas a la dominación ...
Structural Constraints and Determinants of the Economic Growth in Cuba
This study attempts to analyse the growth of Cuba's production sector and to identify the main determinants and constraints that existed during a period when tighter restrictions on trade and financial activity forced the ...
George R. Boyer, The winding road to the welfare state. Economic insecurity & social welfare policy in Britain, Princeton and Woodstock, Princeton University Press, 2019, 384 pp. [Ressenya de llibre]
George Boyer analiza en este libro, rico en ejemplos históricos, la evolución de la política social británica entre 1834 y la implementación del informe Beveridge des-pués de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El libro es, en ...
The Rabassaire Struggle: Long-Term Analysis of a Social and Political Movement
The rabassaire struggle of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represented the most intense unrest in the Catalan countryside since the peasant rebellions of the fifteenth century, and it was one of the main ...
La reconversión en la industria de equipos de telecomunicación entre finales de la década de 1980 e inicios del siglo XXI . El caso de Alcatel-SESA
Los avances tecnológicos provocados por la microelectrónica, la informática y la fibra óptica despejaron el camino a la poderosa ola mundial de desregulación de las telecomunicaciones en la última década del siglo xx. A ...
Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla: Los marqueses de Comillas 1817-1925. Antonio y Claudio López [Ressenya de llibre]
Ressenya del llibre: Martín RODRIGO ALHARILLA, Los Marqueses de Comillas. 1817-1925. Antonio y Claudio López. LID Editorial Empresarial, Madrid, 2000, 405 pp.
Comerciants i fabricants. Una reflexió sobre l'origen comercial del capital industrial: el cas de Vilanova i la Geltrú
Ja fa algun temps que Josep M. Fradera ha mostrat com la vitivinicultura es va subordinar al complex industrial-comercial i com les activitats comercials es van posar al servei de les necessitats de la indústria durant les ...
Paloma Fernández-Pérez (coord.) La profesionalización de las empresas familiares [Ressenya de llibre]
Ressenya de: Paloma Fernández-Pérez (coord.) (2013) : La profesionalización de las empresas familiares. Madrid. LID Editorial. 222 p.
Enric Saguer (editor): Forçats a foc i llum. Una història oral dels últims masovers de la regió de Girona, 1930-2000, Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2011, 496 p. [Ressenya de llibre]
Masoveria was one of the principal social institutions in the organisation of Catalan agriculture in the past. It was a type of contract involving the leasing-out of a farm unit (mas) of approximately 5 to 30 hectares in ...
El sindicalisme rabassaire a la comarca d'Igualada
Little documentary trace was left of ra¬bassaire unionism after its forced disap¬pearance as a result of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and the repression and exile of its militants. This movement has not received ...
More than energy transformations: a historical transition from organic to industrialized farm systems in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, Catalonia, 1860-1959-1999)
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful way to assess the sustainability of farm systems. In this paper we examine the transition of a Mediterranean agroecosystem ...
Long-term bio-cultural heritage: exploring the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in agro-ecological landscapes (Mallorca, c. 1850-2012)
We applied an intermediate disturbance-complexity approach to the land-use change of cultural landscapes in the island of Mallorca from c. 1850 to the present, which accounts for the joint behaviour of human appropriation ...
A political economy approach of India in Senegal. A "win-win" partnership?
BRICS are on the rise in the world economy, and indeed this fact has a reflection on Africa in terms of growing engagement with the region. The effects of these increasing trade, investment, and aid flows on the development ...
La Crisi Tardomedieval i el desenvolupament d'una ramaderia senyorial. Mallorca, Segles XIV-XVI
En les economies preindustrials orgàniques la ramaderia constituïa un formidable "convertidor biològic" (E. Tello, 1994). El bestiar transformava l'energia fixada per les plantes en proteïnes i greixos per al consum humà ...
Consolidation and rationalization of the public companies in Spain: the information and communication technologies (ICT) holding
This article aims to study a strategic sector in the first years of the new millennium, whose results have been already been partially presented. It is structured into four main sections, which include the introduction, a ...
L'ingrés agrícola a la Plana de Vic al segle XVIII. Les rendes d'origen agrari
Els estudis sobre la realitat econòmica d'époques passades inclouen cada vegada amb més relleu informacions quantitatives seriades de magnituds importants dins el sistema econòmic. Pel que fa a l'Espanya del segle XVIII, ...
The Loss of Landscape Ecological Functionality in the Barcelona Province (1956-2009): Could Land-Use History Involve a Legacy for Current Biodiversity?
Could past land uses, and the land cover changes carried out, affect the current landscape capacity to maintain biodiversity? If so, knowledge of historical landscapes and their socio-ecological transitions would be useful ...
Squaring the Circle: Assessing whether the European Union's Pursuit of Bilateral Trade Agreements Is Compatible with Promoting Multilateralism
The European Union's trade strategy since 2006 has been justified on the assumption that deep and comprehensive bilateral trade agreements are at worst complementary to and at best promote multilateral negotiations. Drawing ...
La exportación española de aceite de oliva antes de la Guerra Civil: empresas, mercados y estrategias comerciales. Apéndice cuantitativo
Las siguientes páginas son una continuación del articulo 'La exportación española de aceite de oliva antes de la Guerra Civil: empresas, mercados y estrategias comerciales', publicado en el anterior número de esta misma ...
