A History of Spanish Economic Thought

This book presents a new and comprehensive study of the history of Spanish economic thought. It analyses all the main schools and currents of economic thought that left their mark in the country from Scholasticism in the sixteenth century through to Keynesianism in the post-Second World War era.

Jesús Astigarraga is a full professor at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He holds a PhD in economics (1991) and a PhD in history (2015). Juan Zabalza is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics (University of Alicante, Spain), where he teaches, among other topics, the history of economic thought.

1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCHOLASTICISM AND THE SCHOOL OF SALAMANCA 3. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF 'ARBITRISMO' 4. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT (1700-1812) 5. THE EARLY CLASSICAL STAGE: THE SAY ERA (1814-1840) 6. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF LIBERAL REFORMS (1840-1874) 7. BEYOND CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: KRAUSISM, MODERATE LIBERALISM AND SOCIAL CATHOLICISM (1874-1904) 8. NEO-HISTORICISM AND THE MODERNISING OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE (1904-1930) 9. DOCTRINAL DIVERSITY IN A TURBULENT DEMOCRATIC ENVIRONMENT (1930-1939) 10. RECONSTRUCTING ECONOMIC SCIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF A DICTATORSHIP: KEYNESIANISM AND ORDOLIBERALISM (1940-1959) Glossary Bibliography Index