1st Edition

Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973

By Diego Ayala Copyright 2024
260 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of this process explain the “Spanish Miracle” as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco regime in the 1950s. Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle provides an alternative explanation of... Read more

I. Perspectives on the Spanish Miracle   II. Economy and Society in Restoration Spain, 1874–1936   III.  Peasant War and the Social Origins of the Franco Regime, 1931–1939   IV.  Reconfiguration of State and Capital, 1936–1945   V.  The Political Economy of “Autarky,” 1939–1951   VI. Primitive Accumulation, 1939–1951   VII. Acceleration, 1951–1957   VIII. Takeoff, 1957–1973

Biography

Diego C. Ayala, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.