G. Tortella, J. García Ruiz

Spanish Money and Banking (eBook, PDF)

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137317131
• Artikelnr.: 40722561

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Tortella is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid), Spain. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize (1994), and has been President of the International Economic History Association, of the Spanish Economic History Association, and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (London) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). Among his many publications, recent books include The Development of Modern Spain (2000), The Origins of the Twenty-First Century (2010), and (with Gloria Quiroga) Entrepreneurship and Growth (2013). José Luis García Ruiz is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (Florence) and Harvard University. He has published several books and articles in the fields of financial history and business history. His main contributions are related to the history of big banks (Hispano, Banesto) and big industrial firms (Mahou, Barreiros) in Madrid.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Money and Banking in the Twilight of Empire 3. Banking in War and Peace 4. Banks and Railways: From Boom to Bust 5. The Peseta and the Bank of Spain 6. A Renewed Banking System 7. From Dictatorship to Republic: Spain and the Great Depression 8. Banking under Franco 9. Transition to Democracy, Oil crisis, and Further Bank Reforms 10. The Challenge of the European Market 11. The Bursting of the Bubble: Savings Banks, a Death Foretold 12. Conclusions