Appraises the turbulent development of the Spanish economy over the last fifty years and places current economic problems in their historical context. The autho

"At its peak in the late sixteenth century," this history begins, "Spain controlled the first empire upon which the sun never set and exercised a tremendous inf

"Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figur

This book has a dual purpose. First, it analyses the concept of economic crises within economic theory, showing the various theoretical foundations and controve

The so-called ‘Spanish miracle’, beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-da