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Cubeiro Rodríguez, Dídac. 2023. The Pearl of the East. The Economic Impact of the Colonial Railways in the Age of High Imperialism in Southeast Asia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 227 pp.
(Universitat de Barcelona, 2026-03-13) Herranz Loncán, Alfonso
Ressenya de: Cubeiro Rodríguez, Dídac. 2023. The Pearl of the East. The Economic Impact of the Colonial Railways in the Age of High Imperialism in Southeast Asia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 227 pp. (Review).
Fuentes, métodos y nuevas tecnologías en la historia empresarial de América Latina<br />
(Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2026-08) Fernández Pérez, Paloma, 1964-; Rodríguez Satizábal, Beatriz; Lluch, Andrea
Este número especial explora las contribuciones de los historiadores empresariales de América Latina en la creación de repositorios y bases de datos de acceso público, como también, en la visibilización de otras iniciativas para la preservación de archivos de empresas y familias empresarias. Los siete artículos incluidos en este número especial buscan renovar una larga discusión sobre fuentes y metodologías, poner de manifiesto distintas estrategias, entre ellas las de digitalización de archivos privados y públicos, así como la puesta en marcha de bases de datos, y finalmente, cómo se están utilizando en investigaciones a partir de casos de firmas familiares de Argentina, Colombia, Chile y Perú. Este artículo introductorio sostiene que la discusión sobre fuentes y métodos no es un preámbulo técnico de la investigación histórica, sino una cuestión sustantiva que delimita lo que puede conocerse del pasado empresarial. El texto recorre la formación de la caja de herramientas de la disciplina desde su institucionalización a comienzos del siglo XX y el modo en que las teorías de la empresa moldearon qué se consideró evidencia legítima; examina la trayectoria de la historia empresarial en América Latina, sus categorías propias —en particular la distinción entre empresa familiar y familia empresaria— y las asimetrías que persisten; y analiza el desafío de los archivos empresariales, atendiendo a la legislación comparada, al papel de las organizaciones intermedias, al silencio del archivo y a las estrategias de triangulación e historia oral con que la región lo ha enfrentado. Una última sección discute las fuentes y los métodos en la era digital, contrastando las posibilidades del reconocimiento automático de escritura, la minería de texto y la construcción de bases de datos con las advertencias formuladas desde la historia digital sobre el uso irreflexivo de corpus digitalizados. Los siete artículos reunidos muestran que la creatividad metodológica nacida de la escasez documental constituye un aporte latinoamericano a un debate global.
Accidentes laborales: ¿es determinante el día de la semana?
(Iustel, 2025-11) Franco Sala, Luis; Vilaseca i Requena, Jordi
Este artículo analiza la distribución semanal de los accidentes laborales con baja en jornada de las personas afiliadas al Régimen General de la Seguridad Social en España entre el 2012 y el 2023, a partir de los índices de incidencia calculados con los datos del sistema Delt@ (Declaración Electrónica de Trabajadores Accidentados). Se considera la gravedad del accidente y el género. El objeto de estudio es los accidentes de trabajo por días de la semana. Su conocimiento permite identificar patrones temporales. Esta información es clave para mejorar la prevención y reducir la siniestralidad. Los datos identifican algunos patrones sobre los accidentes laborales en función del día de la semana.
Democracy in Hard Times: Economic Decline, Social Capital, and Resilience Against Far-Right Nationalism
(Emerald Publishing, 2022) Amat, Francesc, 1980-; Lindstam, Emmy
Why do voters in contexts of economic decline increasingly come to support far-right nationalist parties in some places but not in others? We develop a theoretical argument regarding the role of social interconnections in shaping responses to economic insecurity and suggest that social capital can mitigate the effects of adverse economic shocks on cultural backlash. We test our theory by combining individual-level data on voting behavior from the European Social Survey (waves 1-9) with data on economic conditions and memberships in civic organizations at the level of European regions. Our findings reveal that while economic decline strengthens support for far-right nationalist parties where levels of social capital are low, this effect is reversed in areas with high levels of social capital. Results remain robust when we replicate our findings using a proxy for social capital less susceptible to endogeneity: the regional share of non-egalitarian historical family types. Our findings contribute by advancing our understanding of the conditions under which economic decline fails to prompt cultural backlash.
Investing in Fiscal Capacity: Legislative Debates, Military Pressures and Tax Policy in the United Kingdom (1803-1913)
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2026-01-01) Sabaté Domingo, Oriol; Goenaga, Agustín
Numerous studies show an association between military pressures andfiscal development, often based on cross-national correlations between wars and fiscal outcomes (e.g., tax ratios). However, investments infiscal capacity may take time to yield higher tax revenues, obscuring the importance of factors that contributed to those investments. This article shifts attention from fiscal outcomes to the policy-making process. Using text-as-data techniques to analyze British parliamentary debates from1803 to 1913, it offers new micro-level evidence of the relationship between military pressures and fiscal policy-making in the United Kingdom during the long nineteenth century. Our analyses show that military issues were associated with higher fiscal salience and lower contestation in tax debates. Qualitative analyses indicate that military issues were recurrently invoked to support the renewal of the personal income tax despite attempts to repeal it, confirming the close link between military and fiscal issues in shaping the modern British fiscal state.
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory
(Elsevier B.V., 2025-02-01) Montaño, Marta; Sanabria, Olga; Quilindo, Oswaldo; Urrego-Mesa, Alaxander; Tello, Enric; Marull, Joan
To reverse the socioecological impacts derived from the Green Revolution in the indigenous territory of Puracé (Colombia), an agroecological transition proposal elaborated by the Kokonuko community through participative action research is presented with a respectful approach to the indigenous knowledge of this community and their Cabildo. Reversing the detrimental consequences of industrial agriculture requires reducing dependence on non-renewable energy inputs and their replacement with nature-based solutions based on biocultural heritage of the community. This study compares traditional agricultural management based on ethnobotanical characterization, biophysical energy analysis, and landscape evaluation, describing the different agricultural systems that compose the basis of the proposal for this agroecological transition carried out with the Kokonuko people. The results show that traditional management from socially integrated polyculture of some pilot farms is multifunctional, high agro-diverse, food-sovereignty and traditional medicine oriented. Besides, it has a high energy efficiency compared to industrial monoculture management more related to agrochemicals and direct production to the market. The performance of traditional management in the indigenous territory, previously optimized in pilot farms, would facilitate the reconstruction of biocultural landscapes, strengthen indigenous governance, and recover traditional multifunctionality that assured food sovereignty of the community that was the depository of indigenous knowledge. The conservation of seeds by the community is essential to generate a global transformative change towards sustainability.
Reclaiming Food Insecurity in European Urban Policies: Lessons From Public and Community‐Based Initiatives
(Cogitatio, 2025-12-01) Larota Aguilera, María José.; Moragues Faus, Ana María
Cities are at the forefront of socio‐ecological challenges, including food insecurity, rising inequalities, and environmental degradation. Despite a decade of progress in urban food policies, food insecurity remains a low priority in European cities, even as community and public responses increase, revealing persistent challenges in integrating different sectors in food policy‐making. Limited evidence and conceptualisations further hinder the development of effective interventions that combine food availability and accessibility with sustainability and empowerment goals. This study proposes an analytical framework grounded on the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition’s six‐dimensional approach (Availability, Access, Utilisation, Stability, Agency, and Sustainability) to address these gaps. Applying this framework to the case of Barcelona, the study maps local food insecurity responses and develops a new typology of initiatives, which range from targeted access programs to more comprehensive efforts that incorporate multiple dimensions such as agency and sustainability. The analysis highlights significant tensions within and between initiatives, particularly at the intersection of sustainability, agency, and access. Tensions reflect broader structural challenges in European urban food policies, where weak sectoral integration across economic, environmental, and justice areas limits effective responses to food insecurity. More comprehensive initiatives offer bottom‐up insights into navigating these tensions and trade‐offs. We argue that embracing all six food security dimensions can support urban policies to better address food insecurity by redesigning individual initiatives and leveraging their diversity and synergies from a place‐based perspective. A more critical, collaborative, multidimensional, and territorial approach that explicitly connects urban food policies with poverty reduction is essential for building inclusive, resilient, and just urban food systems.
The politics of funding: The Rockefeller Foundation and french economics, 1945-1955
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-06-27) Benest, Serge
Following World War II, the director of the social sciences division at the Rockefeller Foundation, the industrial economist Joseph H. Willits, thought it important to extend its activities to Europe, especially France. His agenda was to strengthen institutional economics and to create modern research centers with a view to stabilizing the political situation. In the postwar decade, almost all economic research centers in France were funded by the Foundation, which helped provide greater autonomy to French economists within academia but failed to reshape French economic training and research.
An education to colonise. The educational discrimination of indigenous people in colonial settings: lessons from Colombia and Mozambique
(Asociación Española de Historia Económica, 2023-04-04) España Eljaiek, Irina; Fernández Cebrián, Pablo; Fuentes-Vázquez, María José
[eng] This paper analyses the processes through which racially exclusionary policies lead to lower educational outcomes for indigenous population groups in racialised and colonial settings. Focusing on Colombia and Mozambique, we show that for much of the 20th century indigenous people were unable to access the same schooling as the non-indigenous population. Most indigenous children did not advance beyond very low-quality forms of education in schools run by Catholic missions. This, together with much lower public investments in the education of indigenous peoples, put indigenous children at a comparative disadvantage for the accumulation of human capital. We show this by constructing new estimates of literacy and primary education completion rates for the different ethnic groups in Colombia and Mozambique over the 20th century. In accordance with our argument, we find systematic differences in the accumulation of human capital for the indigenous and non-indigenous populations respectively.
The Origins of mass education in colombia
(Asociación Uruguaya de Historia Económica, 2023-08-04) Fuentes-Vázquez, María José
[eng] Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. Williamson (2015) suggested that inequality in Latin America occurred between World War I and the 1970s (the so-called “Great Leveling”). As education is a crucial factor in reducing inequality, this paper provides a complete breakdown of educational coverage during the first half of the 20th century to identify long-term patterns in educational inequality. To address this, I construct and analyse annual series of gross enrolment rates for primary and secondary schooling disaggregated at the regional scale and consider different characteristics of it, such as public and private education, rural and urban education, and gender. The results show that the territories where industrialization began had higher coverage rates than the more indigenous peripheries of the country in both primary and secondary education. Regarding the analysis of gender, the results clearly show a gender bias in the coverage of primary education, while in secondary education there is a bias in quality.
The Rise of Modern Police Forces in the United Kingdom: Tracking Legislative Debates Around Police Reform (1803–1945)
(Duke University Press, 2025-06-18) Sabaté Domingo, Oriol; Goenaga, Agustín
The transformation in the purposes, instruments, and conditions for the deployment of coercion was a central aspect of the modernization of Western European states during the long nineteenth century. Nowhere is this transformation as evident as in the emergence and diffusion of public, specialized, and professional police forces at the time. In this article, we employ automated text analysis to explore legislative debates on policing in the United Kingdom from 1803 to 1945. We identify three distinct periods in which policing was highly salient in Parliament, each of them related to more general processes driving the modernization of the British state. The first period (1830s–1850s) was marked by the institutionalization of modern police forces and their spread across Great Britain. The second period (1880s–1890s) was dominated by Irish MPs denouncing police abuses against their constituents. The third period (1900s–1940s) was characterized by discussions around working conditions for the police in the context of mounting social pressures and war-related police activities. Whereas the first and third periods have attracted much scholarly interest as they culminated in concrete police reforms, the second period has not been as central to historical research on the British police. We show, however, that policing became a major issue in the legislative agenda of the 1880s and 1890s, as it highlighted the tensions within a modernizing British state, torn between the professionalization of domestic police forces under control of local authorities and the persistence of imperial practices in its colonial territories.
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
(2025-01-05) Kallis,Giorgos; Hickel, Jason; O'Neill, Daniel Walton; Jackson, Tim; Victor, Peter A.; Raworth, Kate; Schor, Juliet B.; Steinberger, Julia K.; Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South.
Society, economy and missing girls in 18th century Spain
(Elsevier, 2026-05-01) Beltrán Tapia, Francisco; Diez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martínez Galarraga, Julio
Relying on local-level information in late-18th-century Spain (almost 17,500 locations), this article (1) shows that average child sex ratios were extremely high, a result that cannot be explained by female under-registration, (2) identifies which regions were more prone to suffer from ‘missing girls’, and (3) explores the factors that might be behind this phenomenon in 18th-century Spain. Our results show that, broadly speaking, Southern Spain exhibited an excess of male children. Those areas showing relatively high child sex ratios are associated with precarious economic conditions and a marriage market that resulted in (almost) universal female marriage and a large spousal age gap. Lastly, our model only explains a small part of the variation in child sex ratios, thus suggesting that it is likely that unobserved social and cultural factors, which are more difficult to measure, were also playing a role in triggering gender-discriminatory practices during infancy and childhood.
Borja de Riquer (2022). Francesc Cambó. L´últim retrat [Ressenya]
(Universitat de Barcelona, 2023-11-15) Catalán, Jordi
De Riquer, Borja (2022). Francesc Cambó. L´últim retrat. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 919 pp.
Cooperativismo, movilización campesina y dinámica política en un área neurálgica de la lucha rabassaire (1919-1924)
(Asociación Española de Historia Económica, 2025-02-04) Planas i Maresma, Jordi, 1963-
El cooperativismo vitivinícola se desarrolló en Cataluña en un momento de auge de la lucha social y política de los rabassaires. Las exitosas campañas electorales de Lluís Companys, el principal organizador de la Unión de Rabassaires, coincidieron con la creación de las primeras bodegas cooperativas. Pero el cooperativismo vitivinícola fue muy impermeable a la influencia del movimiento rabassaire, aun cuando este movimiento estaba muy vinculado al fenómeno cooperativo y, además, las bodegas cooperativas contaban con la participación del colectivo rabassaire. Este artículo intenta explicar esta aparente contradicción con el estudio de un área neurálgica de la lucha rabassaire, donde la movilización social y política de los cultivadores de vides fue más intensa a comienzos de los años 1920.
City profile: A history of changing urban powers to feed the city of Barcelona
(Elsevier, 2025-08-01) Herrero, Amaranta; Moragues-Faus, Ana
Cities are pivotal to addressing planetary sustainability and equity challenges, including transforming food systems. The urgent need for transformation calls for a deeper engagement with urban food literature, situating intervention assessments in their historical and socio-ecological contexts. This city profile analyses 800 years of urban food governance in Barcelona to progress our understanding of the city governments' different powers and capacities to shape food systems. Drawing on documentary analysis, participant observation, and interviews, we first identify five distinct historical periods and describe how local powers have shaped Barcelona’s food system through famines, wars, riots, dictatorships, and democratic periods. Then, we present the current state of urban food governance, highlighting critical challenges, key urban food policies, and their impacts. Our findings reveal how a variety of policy instruments and institutions have addressed the multifaceted urban food challenges throughout history. Policy instruments have evolved from regulatory and coercive approaches to a focus on behavior change and softer tools, accompanied by lower levels of citizen mobilization. Thus engaging with the past of uban food governance might contribute to a much needed expansion of urban food policy imaginaries and practices to address planetary emergencies
A new estimate of Ecuador's GDP, 1900-50
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2025-03-01) Reyna Pérez, Julio César; Herranz Loncán, Alfonso; Castillo, Atenea
Official Ecuadorian GDP data begins in 1950. Prior, only preliminary estimates were available, based on very scattered evidence and broad assumptions. In this paper, we estimate new GDP figures for Ecuador for 1900-1950. These are based on the quantitative and qualitative information available for the period, using extensive primary and secondary sources. The new data series allows analysing Ecuador's economic growth and structural change and comparing them to industrialized core countries and other countries in the region. Unlike previous estimates, our series shows a sustained divergence of Ecuador from the core countries during the first half of the 20th century.
Dos modelos de especialización ganadera en el último siglo: el Vallès Oriental, 1920-2020
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2025-12-10) Planas i Maresma, Jordi, 1963-; Tello, Enric
A lo largo del siglo xx, el crecimiento urbano y los cambios en las pautas alimentarias impulsaron una expansión de la producción ganadera, especialmente en las áreas rurales más próximas a las grandes ciudades donde se concentraba la demanda de alimentos. Ello dio lugar a modelos de especialización ganadera distintos, tanto desde el punto de vista social como ambiental. En este artículo, comparamos dos modelos de producción ganadera que se sucedieron en una comarca vecina de la ciudad de Barcelona antes y después de la Revolución Verde, atendiendo a sus consecuencias económicas, sociales y ambientales: uno con explotaciones tradicionales aun básicamente orgánicas y otro en el que la actividad ganadera se transformó en una producción agroempresarial en granjas de engorde muy desintegradas de su entorno agrícola. Esta evolución muestra la gran transformación del sistema agroalimentario global en el último siglo, y sugiere la necesidad de seguir estudiando ese contraste.
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies
(sciencedirect, 2025-12-01) López García, Daniel; Zerbian, Tanya; Cuevas, Soledad; Moragues Faus, Ana María
The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework has been widely employed to analyze transitions in agri-food systems. However, its analytical capacity remains limited in addressing critical dimensions such as power asymmetries, territorial dynamics, and diverse forms of agency. To address these gaps, this paper integrates MLP with relational and evolutionary perspectives from social movements theory to examine 23 years of agri-food policy co-creation in València, Spain. We aim to understand (1) how do power relations influence the institutional anchoring of bottom-up policy innovations; (2) what mechanisms can grassroots movements leverage to facilitate such anchoring; and (3) what relational dynamics arise in this context. Our findings highlight how grassroots actors mobilize multiple forms of agency and operate across non-linear temporalities to advance anchoring for policy change, assuming diverse roles as intermediary actors. This relational perspective offers new insights into the strategic practices that underpin long-term sustainability transitions.
Parenting styles: the role of beliefs, preferences, and constraints - a study protocol
(European Commission, 2025-07-25) Aurino, Elisabetta; Egyir, John; Thomas, Katherina; Wolf, Sharon
We describe the protocol of a study designed to elicit subjective expectations that influence parenting style choices in a lower-middle-income country. We combine a survey experiment with a theoretical model to examine the role of parental beliefs, preferences, and constraints in driving parenting style decisions in a sample of peri-urban Ghanaian parents (target <em>N</em> = 2,400). We use hypothetical scenarios to elicit parental beliefs regarding the perceived returns of authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles for children’s future income and support to their parents, the perceived costs associated with implementing such styles, and the trade-offs between time spent with children and other activities. We embed this novel survey in a large-scale field experiment testing the impact of a parenting program that promotes culturally adapted authoritative parenting practices. This will also enable us to analyze how parenting interventions impact parental beliefs and the role of beliefs in behavioral change. With this study, we aim to offer insights into the underlying drivers of parental choices and the behavioral mechanisms underlying the impact of parenting programs, contributing to the design of more effective interventions.

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