A long-run view of inter-country inequality in living standards is provided for a large sample of countries in Western Europe, the European Offshoots, Japan – OECD, for short- and Latin America. A long term rise in real per capita income inequality is found. The deepening gap between OECD and...

Between 1850 and 2000, Spain’s real income increased by about 40-fold, at an average rate of 2.5 percent. The sources of this long-run growth are investigated using Jorgenson-type growth accounting analysis. We find that growth upsurges are closely related to increases in TFP. Spanish economic...

In Spain, inequality evolution fits a Kuznets curve. World wars increased inequality but had non-permanent effects. Progressive taxation had no impact until 1980. This picture is at odds with Atkinson, Piketty, Saez, and associates’ depiction of western countries. Stolper-Samuelson forces only...

How does sovereign debt emerge and become sustainable? This paper provides a new answer to this unsolved puzzle. Focusing on the early 19th century, we argue that intermediaries’ market power served to overcome information asymmetries and sustained the development of sovereign debt. Relying on...

Not all Europeans migrated to the United States. Between 1879 and 1930 13 million of Europeans went to Latin America; however, Latin America is not fully incorporated into current debates on the cost and benefits from Atlantic migration. This paper surveys Latin America immigration experience...

En este artículo se han pretendido analizar las causas del atraso argentino, comparando la experiencia de este país con respecto a las de Australia y Canadá. Mediante la construcción de un índice de libertad económica, compuestos por variables que miden distorsiones macroeconómicas, y a...

El trabajo efectúa un análisis de la evolución del sector ferroviario durante la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939). Se trata de un tema que hasta el momento ha recibido una escasa atención y que consideramos puede ayudar a comprender el comportamiento de uno de los principales sectores...

Este analiza detenidamente el registro estadístico ferroviario en Andalucía durante el siglo XX. Las características territoriales y administrativas de la región andaluza, y de las compañías ferroviarias que operaron en esta zona del sur de España, permite hacer un balance del sistema...

This This paper looks at the role of brands in the expansion of sherry exports into the UK during the 20th century. From 1920, the leading Spanish sherry firms (Domecq and González Byass) popularized their own brands through wide advertising campaigns and increased their commitment with the...

This paper shows that the interaction between economic and demographic variables in England before the onset of modern economic growth did not fit some crucial assumptions of the Malthusian model. I estimated a vector autoregression for data on fertility, nuptiality, mortality and real wages...