Spanish Money and Banking

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 1-13

3. Money and Banking in the Twilight of Empire

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 14-25

4. Banking in War and Peace

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 26-47

5. Banks and Railways: From Boom to Bust

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 48-64

6. The Peseta and the Bank of Spain

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 65-89

7. A Renewed Banking System

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 90-101

8. From Dictatorship to Republic: Spain and the Great Depression

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 102-114

9. Banking under Franco

   • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

   Pages 115-138

10. Transition to Democracy, Oil Crisis, and Further Bank Reforms

    • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

    Pages 139-151

11. The Challenge of the European Market

    • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

    Pages 152-174

12. The Bursting of the Bubble: Savings Banks, a Death Foretold

    • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

    Pages 175-188

13. Conclusions

    • Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz

    Pages 189-196

14. Back Matter

    Pages 197-253

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This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era

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Gabriel Tortella is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid), Spain. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize (1994), and has been President of the International Economic History Association, of the Spanish Economic History Association, and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (London) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). Among his many publications, recent books include The Development of Modern Spain (2000), The Origins of the Twenty-First Century (2010), and (with Gloria Quiroga) Entrepreneurship and Growth (2013).

José Luis García Ruiz is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (Florence) and Harvard University. He has published several books and articles in the fields of financial history and business history. His main contributions are related to the history of big banks (Hispano, Banesto) and big industrial firms (Mahou, Barreiros) in Madrid.

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