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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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 31 Oct 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230347656
About G. TortellaJ. García RuizKenneth A. Loparo
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.