Course code: 176704 | Subject title: ECONOMIC HISTORY II | ||||
Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Mandatory | Year: 4 | Period: 1º S | ||
Department: Economía | |||||
Lecturers: | |||||
DE LA TORRE CAMPO, JOSEBA (Resp) [Mentoring ] | RUBIO VARAS, MARIA DEL MAR [Mentoring ] | ||||
GALOFRE VILA, GREGORI [Mentoring ] |
1st part: Introduction
Unit 1.- Overview and long term trends: Spanish growth and development over the 19th and 20th centuries
Unit 2.- The heritage of the eighteenth century: the Spanish economy within late feudalism (16th through 18th centuries)
2nd part: Economic growth and the handicaps to the industrialization diffusion (19th century)
Unit 3.- The crisis of the ancient régime and the liberal revolution: (1789-1940)
Unit 4.- The liberal state and industrialization (1840-1874)
Unit 5.- The nationalist route to industrialisation (1874-1914)
3rd part: Development and convergence (the 20th century)
Unit 6.- Parlamentarism crisis, dictatorship and democracy (1914-1936)
Unit 7.- The isolation from the international economy and the first years of Franco's regime (1936-1959)
Unit 8.- Liberalization and economic development under the dictatorship (1959-1973)
Unit 9.- Economic crisis and political transition (1973-1985)
Unit 10.- European integration, (1974-2000)
Generic skills that students should acquire in this course are:
CG03. Oral and written communication in the native language
CG05. Skills related to field of study
CG06. Ability to analyze and search for information from different sources
CG09. Ability to work in team
CG10. Teamwork interdisciplinary
CG12. Skill in personal relationships
CG13. Ability to work in diverse and multicultural environments
CG14. Critical thinking ability
CG18. Ability to adapt to new situations
CG22. Concern for quality
Specific skills that students should acquire in this course are:
CE01.Entender economic institutions and implementing resulting theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works
CE02. Identify sources of economic information and content
CE05. Issue advisory reports on situations of the economy (international, national or regional) or sections of the same
CEO9. Provide rationality to the analysis and description of any aspect of the economic
The principal learning outcome of Economic History subjects within the degrees of Economics and Business Administration is the "understanding of the national and international economic reality, productive sectors, public sector, economic institutions and the evolution of all of them". In Economic History II (Economic History of Spain)
Learning outcomes | Course contents | Formative Activities | Evaluation instrument |
The evolution of the Spanish economy since the end of the Modern Age to Globalization | Syllabus as a whole | A1,A2, A4, A5,A6 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Identify economic reality in its temporal context of the Industrial Revolution to the EU integration | T2,T3, T5,T7, T10 | A1, A2 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Assess the contribution of institutional factors to economic growth and changes in the economy | Syllabus as a whole | A1, A2, A3 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Understanding the historical background of the management of production systems, labor, investment, financing, marketing and innovation | Syllabus as a whole | A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Determinar los mecanismos de las políticas económicas aplicadas en cada etapa, en especial en las fases de cierre y apertura al mercado exterior | T5,T7,T9,T10 | A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Reconstruct the transformations and interactions of the productive sectors | T2,T3,T5,T6,T7,T10 | A1, A2, A5, A6 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Evaluate the role of the public sector in the development of the economy and company | T6,T8,T9,T10 | A1, A2, A5 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Compare the performance of economic institutions and their evolution: democracy and dictatorship | Syllabus as a whole | A2, A4, A5 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
Interpret the national and international economic reality | T6,T7,T8,T9, T10 | A1, A2, A6 | E5, E3, E4, E1 |
The course is very intensive in continuous evaluation. There are proposed activities in every lecture, for every workshop/seminar, and pre-workshop activities too. There will be plenty of teamwork but also individual activities.
Methodology - Activity | hours in class | Outside the classroom |
A-1 Theoretical classes | 30 | |
A-2 Workshops, seminars | 28 | |
A-3 Group tutorials | 10 | |
A-4 Elaboration tasks and exercises | 20 | |
A-5 Reading materials | 30 | |
A-6 Individual study | 25 | |
A-7 Exams and other evaluation tasks | 02 | 01 |
A-8 Individual tutoring | 04 | |
Total | 60 | 90 |
Learning outcomes | Evaluation method | Weight (%) | Recoverable |
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 | E1 final exam | 40 | yes |
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 | E2 workshops | 40 | 20% in the extraordinary |
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 | E3 class activities | 10 | No |
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 | E4 unit tests | 10 | No |
60% continuous evaluation (classes 10%, tests, workshops)
40% final exam (there may be minimum requirements to enter the final exam, and minimum requirements to add up all the parts)
Each week there will be a Lecture (2 hours) and a Workshop/seminar (2 hours) that will follow the contents for the course.
1ST PART: INTRODUCTION
UNIT 1. OVERVIEW AND LONG TERM TRENDS: SPANISH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OVER THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
1.1. Economic growth and structural change from 1800 to 2000: main macroindicators and a comparative view. 1.2. Institutional change: economy and policy in contemporary Spain
UNIT 2. THE HERITAGE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE SPANISH ECONOMY WITHIN LATE FEUDALISM (16TH THROUGH 18TH CENTURIES)
2.1. Economic juncture and structure of late feudalism: surplus distribution, rentseeking, fiscal obligations and credit markets. 2.2. Manufacturing developments and market integration
2nd part: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE HANDICAPS TO THE INDUSTRIALIZATION DIFUSSION (19TH century)
UNIT 3. THE CRISIS OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION: (17891940)
3.1. The historical legacy, the contradictions within the system and critical external events. 3.2. A new State: Liberals' administrative and economic reforms: an economy with less restrictions. 3.3. The agrarian sector: supply and demand changes. Productive results
UNIT 4. THE LIBERAL STATE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION (18401874)
4.1. Fiscal reforms and their impact on economic growth.4.2. The integration of the national market: transport problems and the role of railways (its commercial and industrial effects). 4.3. A demand or supply problem? Entrepreneurs and investment
UNIT 5. THE NATIONALIST ROUTE TO INDUSTRIALISATION (18741914).
5.1. Protectionism vs free trade: economic interest and tariff policies. 5.2. The "agrarian depression" and the change of orientation. 5.3 Import substitution industrialization policies. Growth with divergence.
3rd part: DEVELOPMENT AND CONVERGENCE
(the 20th century)
UNIT 6 PARLAMENTARISM CRISIS, DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY (19141936)
6.1 A neutral economy during the First World War. 6.2. Social conflict and the distribution of the war profits. 6.3. Growth and structural change during Primo de Rivera dictatorship. 6.4. The Depression, class struggle and social reformist policies of the Second Republic
UNIT 7. THE ISOLATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY AND THE FIRST YEARS OF FRANCO'S REGIME (19361959).
7.1. War economy and finance and social revolution.. 7.2Autarkic policies and market intervention 7.3. Early opening and industrialisation: private vs public enterprise
UNIT 8. LIBERALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP (19591973).
8.1. The Stabilization Plan. 8.2. Growth and structural change: agricultural shrinking, mass migrations and industrialization 8.3. The external sector and the balance of payments.
UNIT 9. ECONOMIC CRISIS AND POLITICAL TRANSITION (19731985)
9.1. A exhausted growth model and the two oil shocks . 9.2. The economic policy of the transition: structure and industrial crisis . 9.3. The rise of the welfare state.
UNIT 10 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, (19742000).
10.1. The integration in the European Union and its consequences. 10.2 The structural handicaps for full convergence. 10.3. Economic growth and structural changes: internationalisation of capital and immigration
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Basic bibliography
CARRERAS, A. y TAFUNELL, X. (2021), Between Impire and Globalization. An Economic History of Modern Spain. London, Palgrave
CARRERAS, A. y TAFUNELL, X. (Coords.), (2005), Estadísticas históricas de España, Siglos XIX-XX, Madrid, Fundación BBVA. 3 vols..
TORTELLA, G., The Development of Modern Spain. An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U.P., 2000,
Complementary readings
BARCIELA, C. y JIMÉNEZ BLANCO, J.I. (eds.) (1986), Historia agraria de la España contemporánea. 3. El fin de la agricultura tradicional, Barcelona, Crítica.
CARR, R, ed., Spain. A History, Oxford, Oxford U.P., 2000,
COMÍN, F., HERNÁNDEZ, M. y LLOPIS, E., eds. (2002), Historia Económica de España. Siglos X-XX, Barcelona, Crítica.
GARCIA DELGADO, J.L. y JIMÉNEZ, J.C. (1999), Un siglo de España. La economía, Madrid, Marcial Pons Eds.
NADAL, J. y CARRERAS, A. (coords.) (1990): Pautas regionales de la industrialización española (siglos XIX y XX), Barcelona, Ariel.
NADAL, J., CARRERAS, A., y SUDRIÀ, C. (eds.) (1987), La economía española en el siglo XX, Barcelona, Ariel.
PRADOS DE LA ESCOSURA, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015. London, Palgrave.
RINGROSE, D.R. (1998), Spain, Europe, and the "Spanish miracle", 1700-1900, Cambrigde University Press.
SÁNCHEZ ALBORNOZ, N. (cord.) (1985), La modernización económica de España, 1830-1930, Madrid, Alianza.