Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial: Recent submissions
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Towards an agroecological transition in the Mediterranean: A bioeconomic assessment of viticulture farming
Transformations in the agri-food system since the early 19th century have led to an unprecedented increase in food production. However, the structure of this system has generated many negative environmental and social ...
How to evaluate the capacity of hospital systems in a very long term international comparative perspective? Hospital beds per inhabitant in Catalonia 1900s-2010s
This article proposes that the number of hospital beds available in a territory can be used as a comparative tool to gain a perspective on the very long term evolution of the historical capacity of hospital systems worldwide. ...
The Saga Continues: contestation of EU trade policy
Trade policy constitutes a significant part of the European Union's (EU) foreign policy. The EU's emphasis on global trade liberalization in the 21st century is most evident through its ever increasing number of modern, ...
Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
Culture is increasingly being framed as a driver of human phenotypes and behaviour. Yet very little is known about variations in the patterns of past social interactions between humans in cultural evolution. The archaeological ...
New Evidence on Regional Inequality in Iberia (1900-2000)
This article presents new evidence on the evolution of regional inequality in Iberia from 1900 to 2000 from a geographical perspective. To do so we introduce a new historical dataset of regional gross domestic products ...
Francisco Comín, Ricardo Hernández y Javier Moreno (Eds.), Instituciones políticas, comportamientos sociales y atraso económico en España (1580-2000): Homenaje a Ángel García Sanz. Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2017, 554 pp. [Ressenya de llibre]
Las ciencias sociales en España presentan en las últimas décadas una situación que algunos podrían calificar de cierta reorientación -desorientación, dirían otros- olvidando la importancia del qué estudiar para destacar ...
No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state development
This article combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity. We show that information ...
Pau Viciano. Els peus que calciguen la terra. Els llauradors del País Valencià a la fi de l'edat mitjana. (2012) Valencia, Publicacions de la Universitat de València
El departamento de Historia Medieval de la Universidad de Valencia continúa con su meritoria obra de producir y publicar interesantes aportaciones historiográficas. Esta frase inicial resultaría el insufrible tópico que ...
David Mitch y Gabriele Cappelli (eds.), Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education, Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature Switzerland, Suiza, 2019, v + 338 p. [Ressenya de llibre]
La aparición y expansión de la educación formal es seguramente uno de los temas más estudiados en historia económica. En buena medida esto se explica por sus impli-caciones para el crecimiento económico. Aunque no son ...
La Lliga de Productors del Principat de Catalunya i els interessos agraris (1894-1898)
La Lliga Nacional de Productors va néixer el 1894 amb l'objectiu de coordinar les reivindicacions dels grups industrials i agraris espanyols en defensa del proteccionisme aranzelari. La Lliga de Productors del Principat ...
Edna Copparoni, Edgardo Ricetti maestro y luchador social [Ressenya de llibre]
Ressenya de llibre: Edna COPPARONI, Edgardo Ricetti maestro y luchador social [Ressenya de llibre]
Sistemas agrarios sustentables y transiciones en el metabolismo agrario: desigualdad social, cambios institucionales y transformaciones del paisaje en Catalunya (1850-2010)
How did farmers maintain soil fertility as they cultivated the same land over decades and centuries? How did they transfer energy and nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous) across the landscape to fertilize crops? ...
BARBÉ, Lluís: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. Crònica familiar, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions, 2006, 391 pp.
La figura del economista británico Francis Isidro Edgeworth ocupa por derecho propio un lugar importante en la historia de la teoría económica neoclásica, pero lo cierto es que no siempre ha sido así. El profesor Barbé, a ...
Socio-ecological transition in a Mediterranean agroecosystem: What energy flows tell us about agricultural landscapes ruled by landlords, peasants and tourism (Mallorca, 1860-1956-2012)
Using several energy returns on investment indicators (multi-EROI), this article analyses the socioecological transition of an agroecosystem in the western Mediterranean on the island of Mallorca (Spain) over a period of ...
Microcrédito, familias y hogares. Barcelona a finales del siglo XVIII
El presente estudio trata sobre la complementariedad de las estrategias de supervivéncia de los hogares trabajadores de Barcelona a finales del setecientos. Concretamente analiza: el uso de las instituciones de microcrédito ...
Inventari de l'hemeroteca local: publicacions sabadellenques (1854-2004). 150
Una eina indispensable per a la reconstrucció de la història contemporània d'una comunitat és la seva premsa i les edicions de llibres i altres publicacions impreses. Tal vegada, el fet que una ciutat com Sabadell aplegui ...
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: Evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education
The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such alternatives seek radical societal transformations ...
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies
Despite renewed efforts to combat climate change, it remains uncertain how economies will achieve emission reduction by 2050. Among different decarbonisation strategies, knowledge about the potential role and contributions ...
Labour, nature, and exploitation: Social metabolism and inequality in a farming community in mid‐19th century Catalonia
Exploiting the labour of other people has historically been one of the main strategies to tackle the biophysical tension that always exists between the satisfaction of human needs and the labour required to fulfil them. ...
A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century
Demography is the study of human populations and their structure, i.e. the composition of populations, and the subdivision of the metapopulation into smaller subunits. Palaeodemography refers to the study of the demography ...
