1st Edition
The Contemporary Spanish Economy A Historical Perspective
First Published in 2005. This title studies the 1981 insurrection of the Spanish 'Guardia Civil', motivated by political and economic factors. The politico-economic causes of the February incident have been succinctly summarized and traced the institutional causality which explains the peculiarities of contemporary Spanish development. Within are chapters on Spanish agriculture, policies, the industrial revolution, and the economic crisis.
THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ECONOMY: S. LIEBERMAN:
Contents
Acknowledgments page xiii
Introduction: Institutions and Economic
Development:
The Spanish Case 1
Chapter I Contemporary Spanish Agriculture in Historical Perspective 26
Traditional Agriculture in Spain
The Continuity of Feudal Institutions and the Land Tenure System
The Second Republic and Agrarian Reform
Chapter II Agricultural Policy Since 1939 72
Nationalist Agricultural Policy from 1936 to 1953
The Crisis of Traditional Agriculture: 1953 to 1970
Spanish Agriculture in the 1970s
The Institutional Evolution of Agriculture in Retrospect
Chapter III The Long Road to Spain’s Industrial Revolution 120
Foreign Investment in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century and Bourgeois Reaction
Spain Embraces Economic Autarky
The Contest between Reformists and Traditionalists during the Second Republic
The First Two Decades of the Franco Regime
Chapter IV The Spanish Industrial Revolution of the 1960s 199
The Stabilization Plan of 1959
Economic Liberalization in the 1960s: Realities and Appearances
The Industrialization Miracle’ of the 1960s
The Sources of Industrial Finance and the Structure of the Industrial Sector in the 1960s
Economic Development and Social Unrest
The Governments Regional Development Policy
Chapter V The Economic Crisis of the 1970s 265
The End of the European ‘Economic Miracles’: The Spanish Economy in the 1970s
The Unemployment Problem
The Implications of Spain’s Possible Entry into the European Economic Community
Chapter VI The Restoration of Free Trade Unions, Unemployment and Future Growth 322
Reflections on the Spanish Unemployment Problem
The Restoration of Free Trade Unions
Exports, Foreign Exchange Rates and Inflation
Chapter VII Quo Vadis, Hispania? 345
Bibliography 360
Index 366
Biography
lieberman, Sima