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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.
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.
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
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 N = 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.
Degrowth scenarios for biodiversity? Key methodological steps and a call for collaboration
(Springer Verlag) Otero, Iago; Rigal, Satnislas; Pereira, Laura; Kim, HyeJin; Gamboa, Gonzalo; Tello, Enric; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
Studies show that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss and that, after a certain threshold, it does not contribute to wellbeing. Thus, when developing biodiversity scenarios, considering societal futures where economic growth is not a pre-condition deserves special attention. However, to date, degrowth scenarios have not been explored for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing. In this paper, we explain how the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) and other approaches could be used to generate degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and good quality of life (GQL) based on multiple societal values. We present key methodological steps of such an endeavour, including: (i) producing degrowth visions for high-income countries; (ii) identifying leverage points and imagining degrowth pathways; (iii) identifying key social–ecological interactions; and (iv) modelling biodiversity, NCP, and GQL along degrowth scenarios. Our proposal is framed within current theoretical, empirical, and modelling work as well as within efforts to improve scenario development across the biodiversity and climate communities. To develop degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, NCP, and GQL, we call for collaboration across natural and social sciences, quantitative and qualitative approaches, and northern and southern perspectives. This collaboration could lead to a community of practice that tests and improves the degrowth scenarios in national and international science–policy interfaces as they set out to achieve the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.
Factorial and cultural validity of a social and emotional behavior measure in Northern Ghana
(Taylor & Francis) Brown, Autumn; Weiss, Emily; Suntheimer, Noelle; Appiah, Richard; Aurino, Elisabetta; Wolf, Sharon
In a large sample of children in northern Ghana (N = 4,723), we investigated the factorial validity and reliability of the widely used parent-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated poor fit for the proposed 5-factor model. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, we found a reliable and empirically sound 3-factor solution. The first factor reflected self-regulatory and prosocial behaviors, a factor we termed “responsibility” to align with skills valued in the Ghanaian context. The second and third factors represented internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, respectively. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses suggested measurement invariance across gender and age. While evidence of convergent and discriminant validity was mixed, associations with child and household characteristics offer new insights into child development in an understudied context. This study contributes to a conversation around the importance of applying socio-cultural understanding to conceptualizing and measuring social and emotional behaviors across diverse contexts.
Finanzas e Industrialización en España
(Asociación Española de Historia Económica, 2025-02) Gutiérrez Poch, Miquel
La financiación de la industria es siempre una cuestión abierta. ¿Quién? ¿Cómo? ¿Cuándo?, son preguntas necesarias para completar una visión del proceso de industrialización, más allá de aspectos tecnológicos, organizativos, etc. La plena comprensión de los mecanismos que están detrás de la inversión industrial es esencial para una correcta conceptualización del proceso. El libro objeto de reseña nos recuerda esta necesidad, esta exigencia. Finanzas e industrialización en España, editado por Gregorio Núñez y María Vázquez-Fariñas, recupera una serie de trabajos que vieron la luz en 2009 en Revista de Historia de la Economía y de la Empresa.
Roldán de Montaud, Inés y Pablo Martín-Aceña. 2023. La banca en las colonias españolas: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. Madrid: Marcial Pons Ediciones Historia, 456 pp.
(Universitat de Barcelona, 2024-11-14) Blasco-Martel, Yolanda
Revisión del libro: Roldán de Montaud, Inés y Pablo Martín-Aceña. 2023. La banca en las colonias españolas: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas. Madrid: Marcial Pons Ediciones Historia, 456 pp
The Hard Road to Autocentric Development in a Globalized World: A New Measurement Proposal
(SAGE Publications, 2026-03) Palacios Cívico, J. C. (Juan Carlos); Cairó i Céspedes, Gemma
Globalization has allowed the expansion of technical progress from the core to the periphery, mainly through the export of technological inputs and the direct investment process, which has led to noticeable productivity gains and higher economic growth rates in many developing countries. However, these countries’ capacity to retain such productivity gains and distribute them to the rest of the economy has been limited by their ability to generate sectoral linkages and strengthen their domestic market. Based on Amin’s concept of articulation, this article aims to identify different patterns of accumulation among a sample of 88 countries. An Autocentric Development Index (ADI) is constructed to classify the sample countries into four groups, according to their level of autocentric development (high, high-middle, low-middle, and low) and to evaluate their capacity to transform economic dynamism into higher levels of socioeconomic development. The results of the analysis confirm the difficulties semi-peripheral countries have to converge with core countries, thereby consolidating the hegemonic position of the latter within the world system.
Food sharing governance in European cities: insights from a scoping review
(Routledge) Herrero, Amaranta; Moragues-Faus, Ana
Food sharing initiatives (FSI) are rapidly growing in urban areas and present new opportunities to shape more sustainable urban food systems through collaborative efforts. These initiatives operate within a governance landscape that supports, influences, guides, and regulates their activities. This scoping review aims to explore the current knowledge of food sharing governance in Europe and reveal some of the governance elements that play a role in promoting or hindering the expansion of food sharing initiatives. Our research first offers a quantitative analysis of the literature, pinpointing areas for further investigation. Additionally, we provide a qualitative understanding of the benefits food sharing initiatives entail and the barriers and enablers they encounter. This comprehensive insight has led to developing a new framework to classify internal and external food sharing governance elements consisting of eight categories: structural factors, regulation, resources, discourses, relations between social actors (including power relations), participation, knowledge, and internal organisation. While avoiding idealisations and assessing these initiatives within their specific contexts is crucial, it is worth granting them visibility and support as they possess the potential to transform the food system.
Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931
(Wiley, 2026-02) Jorge-Sotelo, Enrique
Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931. We show how, on the back of a safety net provided by close connections to the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1923–30), bankers embarked in a rapid and outward-oriented expansion characterized by politically driven credit misallocation and risk-shifting on the eve of the Great Depression. Transition to democracy with the coming of the Spanish Second Republic in April 1931 terminated the safety net provided by these connections and the collapse of international trade and finance caused insolvency to surface. Democratic fiscal authorities clashed with the opposition of Banco de España – the privately owned lender of last resort – to share losses stemming from a bailout, resulting in bank failures.
Market access, the skill premium and human capital in Spain (1860-1930)
(Wiley, 2026-01-01) González Val, Rafael; Insa Sánchez, Pau; Martínez Galarraga, Julio; Tirado Fabregat, Daniel A.
This paper explores the relationship between market access and human capital in the context of an industrializing economy, inthis case Spain between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, we examine whether differences in regionalaccumulations of human capital could be related to market access. To do this, we empirically test the relationship betweeneducation variables and market access for Spanish provinces between 1860 and 1930. We then focus on the mechanism thatmay be mediating this relationship, that is, the skill premium. The results suggest that there were sizeable provincial differencesin the skill premium, the explanation for which would be that those provinces with the highest market access specialized morein skill‐intensive sectors in which higher wages were paid.
Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
(Elsevier, 2025-03) Rames, Clément; Rhoads, Daniel; Meseguer Artola, Antoni; Lozano, Sergi; Borge Holthoefer, Javier; Solé Ribalta, Albert
Identifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available data often remains too spatially and temporally coarse, which constrains analysis. This paper leverages high resolution data from over 200 pedestrian count sensors, placed along Barcelona’s commercial areas, providing a detailed understanding of how walking volume has evolved over the past five years, how it varies across neighborhoods, and which socioeconomic and urban attributes influence it. We find that while overall pedestrian traffic has increased, a neighborhood-scale analysis reveals a nuanced picture of fluctuations, including increases, declines, and periodic patterns. The use of global regression models allows us to identify seven key urban factors that shape pedestrian mobility. Subsequently moving the analysis to spatially-aware regression models, we identify the spatial non-stationarity of these factors across the city, indicating the presence of distinct behavioral groups within the urban population. The detailed spatial resolution of our findings provides municipal decision-makers with insights for implementing precise interventions and continually evaluating their effects. Moreover, monitoring pedestrian traffic before and after urban initiatives, while adjusting for seasonal, daily, and time-of-day variations, can yield critical insights for developing pedestrian-oriented urban environments.
The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
(Elsevier, 2025-07-01) McElroy, Chris; O'Neill, D.W.
We use multi-regional input–output analysis to calculate the paid labour, energy, emissions, and material use required to provide basic needs for all people. We calculate two different low-consumption scenarios, using the UK as a case study: (1) a “decent living” scenario, which includes only the bare necessities, and (2) a “good life” scenario, based on the minimum living standards demanded by UK residents. We compare the resulting footprints to the current footprint of the UK, and to the footprints of the US, China, India, and a global average. Labour footprints are disaggregated by sector, skill level, and region of origin. We find that neither low-consumption scenario provides a realistic path to providing a good life for all. While the decent living scenario would require only an 18-hour working week, and on a per capita basis, 35 GJ of energy use, 4.0 tonnes of emissions, and 5.5 tonnes of materials per year, it fails to provide essential needs. The good life scenario encompasses these needs, but would require a 46-hour working week, 73 GJ of energy use, 7.5 tonnes of emissions, and 13.2 tonnes of materials per capita. Both scenarios represent substantial reductions from the UK’s current labour footprint of 65 hours per week, which the UK is only able to sustain by importing a substantial portion of its labour from other countries. We conclude that limiting consumption to the level of basic needs is not enough to achieve sustainability. Substantial changes to provisioning systems are also required.
Electoral dynamics and public primary education spending in a semi-democratic regime: Spain 1902–1922
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2025-08-26) Azar, Paola; Espuelas Barroso, Sergio
This paper examines whether the democratic shortcomings of Restoration Spain influenced the expansion of education spending. Specifically, we discuss how electoral outcomes conditioned the allocation of primary education investment across provinces from 1902 to 1922. Our results show that voting for minority parties and the extensive political patronage at the provincial level hindered public primary schooling outlays. We argue that the government punished “rebellious” provinces to preserve the regime, and that education was not well suited to support patron–client relationships. We also show that these effects diminished after World War I, as government control over electoral outcomes declined. Accordingly, by the end of the period, political voice gained a more salient role.
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: A new method with an application to school meals
(Elsevier, 2025-06-01) Alderman, Harold; Aurino, Elisabetta; Aurino, Elisabetta; Baffour, Priscilla Twumasi; Gelli, Aulo; Turkson, Festus Ebo; Wong, Brad
Poverty reduction and nutrition are often joint outcomes of many public policies and programs which have education as their primary outcome. Quantification of overall benefits for these programs in a common metric is challenging. We propose a new method to incorporate distributional benefits from poverty reduction into standard education economic evaluations. We apply this to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana. We first map effect sizes from the RCT in learning-adjusted years of schooling. We then convert these into long-term monetary gains from increased learning, to which we finally add the distributional benefits under different scenarios of inequality aversion preferences. We show that the program has substantial long-term economic gains. While these primarily stem from improved human capital, depending on different scenarios, up to half of total benefits are driven by current gains from the social protection transfer. Beyond school meals, our methodology is relevant to programs that have impacts covering both human capital and distributional benefits, and to economic evaluations beyond education.
Ho fabricaràs i ho arreglaràs. Els tallers mecànics del districte paperer de l'Anoia: les arrels històriques d'un sector dinàmic
(Centre d'Estudis Comarcals d'Igualada/Ajuntament d'Igualada/Centre d'Estudis Antoni de Capmany de la UB, 2022-01-01) Gutierrez i Poch, Miquel
[eng] The industrial district dynamics derive from the territorial concentration of a certain activity. This high productive concentration generates external economies that benefit the firms that are part of the district. The origins of these benefits are a shared qualified labour market, a better technology transfer and a series of common services and suppliers. Among the latter, the mechanical workshops that ensure the supply of components and the repair of machinery are noteworthy. This study focuses on the Capellades paper district, which development in the second half of the 18th century made it the epicentre of the sector on a Spanish scale. During the 19th century, the existing network of mechanical workshops facilitated the strategic move to technological continuity while the Fourdrinier machine spread. As a result of it, the workshops experienced a double cycle of expansion. The first was related to the Hollander (a rag beating mechanism which was an alternative to the traditional stampers) and the second to the picardo machine (a device that mechanized the manufacture of the sheet, leaving the rest of the process unchanged). Precisely, the picardo ensured the persistence of this technological model during the first third of the 20th century and until the changes of the 1950s and 1960s. In this context, the workshops were adapted to the new technological paradigm, ensuring their survival.
Technological and corporate innovation in the Spanish specialised metallurgy: the case of Rivière (1860-1924)
(Universitat de Barcelona, 2024-03-14) Calvo Calvo, Ángel, 1949-
Metallurgy is, along with textiles, the leading industry of the first industrial revolution in Spain, a feature highlighted in the literature from very early on. One of its sub-sectors, that of metal transformation, has received very special attention from researchers. However, certain gaps still persist in some branches, particularly those relating to various factors of the production system at the factory level, such as capital (equipment and energy), labour, and corporate structure. Herein lies the main motivation for this research, which addresses the reasons behind the success of medium-sized companies in specialised metallurgy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using a case study methodology, primary sources, a long-term perspective and a comparative procedure. The text comprises three main sections, covering the formation of the Rivière company, the production system of this company, and its organisational innovations.

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