Spanish Economic Growth, 1850¿2015

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-58041-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 383 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 6266 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the period 1958–2015 through interpolation, as an alternative to conventional retropolation. The resulting national accounts series are linked to the historical estimates providing yearly series for GDP and its components since 1850. On the basis of new population estimates, the author derives GDP per head, decomposed into labour productivity and the amount of work per person, and placed into international perspective.



With theoretical reasoning and historiographical implications, Prados de la Escosura provides a useful methodological reference work for anyone interested in national accounting.

Open Access has been made possible thanks to Fundación Rafael del Pino's generous support.

You can find the full dataset here: http://espacioinvestiga.org/bbdd-chne/?lang=en

‘This book stands among the classics for the Kuznetian paradigm in empirical economics. This is the definitive study of Spain's transition to a modern economy.’ 

—Patrick Karl O'Brien, Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

‘The definitive account of Spanish economic growth since 1850, based firmly on a magisterial reconstruction of that country’s national accounts and an unrivalled knowledge of both Spanish and global economic history of the period.’



—Stephen Broadberry, Professor of Economic History at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, UK

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Main Trends.- Chapter 2. Main Trends.- Part II. Measurement.- Chapter 3. GDP, 1850–1958: Supply.- Chapter 4. Industry.- Chapter 5. Construction.- Chapter 6. Measuring GDP, 1850–1958: Demand.- Chapter 7. New GDP Series and Earlier Estimates for the Pre-National Accounts Era.- Chapter 8. Splicing National Accounts, 1958–2015.- Chapter 9. Population, 1850–2015.- Chapter 10. Employment, 1850–2015.

Über Autor(innen)

Leandro Prados de la Escosura is Professor of Economic History at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, and Honorary Maddison Chair in the Faculty of Economics and Business, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK, Research Associate at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), UK, and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academy of History, Spain. He has published articles and books on long-run growth and retardation in Spain, the economic consequences of Latin American independence, the costs and benefits of European Imperialism, and British Exceptionalism at the time of the Industrial Revolution.