Recent Publications

• Revista de Historia Industrial
  Economia y Empresa
  Num. 51
  
  
  
  
  

• El valor geográfico de España (1921)
  
  
  
  
  

• Jordi Planas Maresma, Viticultura i cooperativisme. La comarca d'Igualada, 1890-1939
  
  

• Sergio Espuelas Barroso, La evolución del gasto social público en España, 1850-2005
  
  

• Book coordinated by Paloma Fernández: La profesionalización de las empresas familiares
  
  

• Alex Sánchez Article: "Barcelona, capital de la manufactura cotonera europea?" a R. Grau(coord.): Presència i lligams territorials de Barcelona. Vint segles de vida urbana. Barcelona Quaderns d'Història, 18
  
  

• Alex Sánchez and Jordi Catalan chapter: "Cinco cisnes negros. Grandes depresiones en la industrialización moderna y contemporánea" in F. Comín i M. Hernández (eds.): Crisis económicas en España 1300-2012. Lecciones de la Historia
  
  

• Jordi Catalan Chapter: "La SEAT i la represa del districte d'automoció de Barcelona" in S. Balfour (ed.): Barcelona malgrat el franquisme. La SEAT, la ciutat i la represa sense democràcia
  
  

• Carles Sudrià Chapter: "Ajuste económico y transición política (1975-1985)" in Enrique Llopis i Jordi Maluquer de Motes (eds.): España en crisis. Las grandes depresiones económicas, 1348-2012
  
  

• Miquel Gutiérrez Chapter: "Is There a Southern European Model? Deveolopment of the Pulp and Paper industry in Italy, Spain and Portugal" in Juha-Antti Lamberg, Jari Ojala, Mirva Peltoniemi and Timo Särkkä: The Evolution of Global Paper Industri 1800-2050
  
  

• Jordi Nadal, Josep Maria Benalu, Carles Sudria (directors), Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya, 1750-2010
  
  

• Paloma Fernández Pérez, La última globalización y el renacer de los grandes negocios familiares en el mundo
  
  

• Josep Maria Benaul Berenquer, «Autors, editors i impressors a Sabadell, 1850-1975. Nota històrica» en Sabadell, lletra impresa: de la vila a la fi de la ciutat industrial. Catàleg de la Col·lecció Esteve Renom-Monserrat Llonch
  
  

• Edited by Montserrat Duran, Llibre de la confraria y offici de perayres de la vila de Igualada, 2 volumes
  
  

• Christoph Buchheim & Marcel Boldorf (eds.), Europäische Volkswirtschaften unter deutscher Hegemonie, 1938-1945, Jordi Catalan participation
  
  

• César Yáñez and A. Carreras (eds.), The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data, wity chapters by Marc Badia, Anna Carreras-Marín, José Peres and César Yáñez
  
  

• Jordi Catalan, J.A. Miranda and R. Ramon-Muñoz (eds.), Distritos y clusters en al Europa del sur, with chapters by Jordi Catalan, Tomàs Fernandez-de-Sevilla, Miquel Gutiérrez Poch, Ramon Ramon-Muñoz and Francesc Valls-Junyent
  
  

Activities

• Next seminar
  
  José Manuel Rúa (Universitat de Barcelona)
  
  Jurados de empresa y relaciones laborales en las cajas de ahorro durante el franquismo: ¿La utopía nacionalsindicalista hecha realidad?
  
  Day: 5 june 2013
  
  Hour: 14:00-15:30 hours
  
  Place: Sala de Recepcions. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Barcelona
  
  

• Doctoral Students Seminar
  
  Jackeline Velazco (Universitat de Barcelona)
  
  Agriculture in Peru: Identifying stylised facts and major changes during XX century
  
  Day: 23 may 2013
  
  Hour: 14:00-16:00 hours
  
  Place: Room 329, Espai de Recerca en Economia. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Barcelona
  
  

• De la vinya a la fassina. Workshop. Vineyards, wine and wine cooperatives in Catalonia
  
  
  
  
  L'Espluga de Francolí
  27-28 september 2013

• Exhibition Indianes, 1736-1847. Els orígens de la Barcelona industrial, directed by Àlex Sánchez
  
  
  
  
  EXTENDEND & LECTURE SERIES
  EXTENDEND & LECTURE SERIES
  Press dossier
  Indianes, 1736-1847. Els orígens de la Barcelona industrial

• Master in Economic History inaugural lecture: Distant Tyranny: Why Spain Fell Behind in the Early Modern Period.
  By Regina Grafe (Northwestern University)
  
  
  
  Day: 11 october de 2012
  
  Hour: 14:30 hours
  
  Place: Sala de Graus. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa de la UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA
  
  
  

• III Meeting of the Asociación Española de Historia Económica
  
  Commemoration of 40th anniversary of the AEHE
  
  
  
  
  
  Days: 6 - 7 september de 2012
  
  Place: Facultat d'Economia i Empresa (Universitat de Barcelona)
  
  

• Teresa da Silva Lopes (University of York) course in Economic History PhD programme: Three Lectures in Business History.
  12-14 september 2012
  
  Lecture 1: Origins and Evolution of Global Business History
  Lecture 2: How Business History Research can help Refine Theory
  Lecture 3: New Directions and Opportunities in Business History Research
  
  

• Master in Economic History course: Monetary Regimes in Historical Perspective.
  By Rui Esteves, 5-7 june 2012
  
  Lecture 1: The Great Depressions: A Monetary Approach
  Lecture 2: The Great Depressions: A Monetary Approach
  Lecture 3: Long-term Perspective on Exchange Rate Regimes
  
  

• Workshop: Las catástrofes económicas en la Historia de España. Las lecciones de la Historia.
  With participation by Carles Sudrià and Jordi Catalan
  
  

• Fourth Workshop on Social Metabolism of Agricultural Systems
  
  
  
  
  
  Days: 9 and 10 february 2012
  
  Place: Faculty of Economics and Business (Universitat de Barcelona)
  
  
  

• Master in Economic History inaugural lecture: Global Income Inequality: The Story of the Past Two Centuries.
  Per Branko Milanovic, 10 october 2011
  
  

• Research MeetingUn siglo de cambios: empresas familiares y familias empresarias en América Latina y España
  
  
  
  
  
  Days: 5 i 6 de setembre de 2011
  
  Hour: 09:00-14:00 hores
  
  Place: Sala de Recepcions. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Barcelona
  
  Information:palomafernandez@ub.edu
  
  Sponsors: Fundación BBVA
  
  
  

• Master in Economic History course: The Global Economy and Britain: Discovery, Industrial Revolution, Globalization.
  By Knick Harley, 5-7 april 2011
  
  Lecture 1: Britain and America in an Atlantic Economy
  Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution & trade
  Lecture 3: Pre-First World War Global Economy
  
  

• Session Globalizing Family Businesses for a Global Economy
  London, 14-17 April 2011
  
  

• V Iberometrics
  Barcelona, 25-26 March 2011
  
  
  
  
  

• Master in Economic History
  
  
  
  
  

• Doctorate Program
  
  
  
  
  With Mention of Quality awarded by the Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia for the courses 2008-2009 and 2009-2010

News

• Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya (1750-2010) presentation in Societat Catalana d'Economia
  
  6 May 2013, in Societat Catalana d'Economia (Institut d'Estudis Catalans) be presented Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya (1750-2010)

• Jordi Planas book presentation: Viticultura i cooperativisme. La comarca d'Igualada, 1890-1939
  
  

• Doctoral Seminar exchange agreement with University of Oxford
  
  The PhD Programme in Economic History, under the Doctoral Seminar, has agreed to establish a student exchange with the University of Oxofrd.
  
  
  
  
  University of Oxford

• Antonio Barranco even dies
  
  

• Angel Calvo collaboration in programme Moments TVE2 dedicated to telephony, be issued on 7 April
  
  

• Carles Manera publishes The Great Recession. A subversive view
  
  

• Jordi Nadal will be invested as an honorary doctorate from the University of Girona
  
  On March 14, 2013, at Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona held the investiture ceremony as honorary doctorates from Josep Fontana, Ramon Garrabou i Jordi Nadal

• Lecture by Jordi Nadal and Jordi Catalan
  
  14 february de 2013, at Espai Josep Bota (MUHBA-Fabra i Coats), Jordi Nadal and Jordi Catalan give a Lecture: L'automoció a la Barcelona de postguerra. Entre les empreses i l'Estat

• Presentation Jordi Nadal Documentation Centre Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya in Terrassa
  
  6 February de 2013, in the Auditorium mNACTEC be presented the Documentation Centre Jordi Nadal

• Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya (1750-2010) presentation in Sabadell
  
  31 January 2013, at Fundació Bosch i Cardellach headquarter in Sabadell be presented Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya (1750-2010)

• Recerques issue 63 includes papers presented at the conference in memory of Jaime Vicens Vives organized by the Centre Antoni de Capmany in September 2010
  
  

• Lluïsa Pla wins XXII Beca Notari Raimon Noguera Modern and Contemporany History modalty
  
  On 12 December, jury XXII Grants Notari Raimon Noguera unanimously awarded in the form of Modern and Contemporary History Lluïsa Pla i Toldrà for his PhD Dissertation Els Girona: la formació de la gran burgesia catalana del segle XIX (1748-1905), directed by Dr. Jordi Nadal

• Welcome to the EE-T Project Portal
  
  

• Round table Les indianes i la industrialització del setcents a Europa: la manufactura Oberkampf a Jouy i Erasme de Gònima a Barcelona, with Àlex Sánchez, manager of the exhibition and Anne de Thousy, curator of Musée de la Toile de Jouy
  Day: Tuesday 4 de november de 2012
  Place: Saló del Tinell (MUHBA, Plaça del Rei, Barcelona)
  Hour: 19:00 hours

• Lecture by Jordi Catalan: "De la crisi del 1929 a la crisi del 2008", in the cycle Conèixer la Història del segle XX per comprendre el segle XXI
  Day: Thursday 8 november 2012
  Place: Sala Gran, Facultat de Geografia i Història de la UB (c/Montealegre, 6, Barcelona)
  Hour: 19:00 a 20:30 hours

• Dr. Jordi Nadal Matí de Catalunya Ràdio intervention

• "De l'aiguardent al sincrotró", report-interview with Josep Maria Benaul, Jordi Nadal and Carles Sudrià in occasion of the publication Atles de la industrialització de Catalunya, 1750-2010

• Presentation: Llibre de la confraria y offici de la vila de Igualada, (1614-1887), edició a cura de Montserrat Duran
  Day: Friday 28 september 2012
  Place: Igualada Town Hall
  Hour: 20:00

• Presentation: L'Atles de la industrialització catalana, 1750-2010
  Day: monday 17 september 2012
  Place: Cercle d'Economia
  Hour: 19:30
  Please confirm attendance
  

• "Un mal despertar", Marc Prat article in Capital, a Chilean magazine

• Jordi Catalan participates in a book about the European economy during World War II, edited by Christoph Buchheim and Marcel Boldorf, with Marcel Boldorf (Universität des Saarlandes), Harold James (Princeton University), Hervé Joly (Université de Lyon) and Jaroslav Kucera (Univerzita Karlova de Praga), among others

• Sergio Espuelas and Enric Tello collaborate in the report Quant paga l'estudiant? Preus i taxes de matrícula universitària a Catalunya, a Espanya i al món

• Presentation: the book edited by Alex Sánchez, La indústria de les indianes a Barcelona, 1730-1850. The presentation will be given by Jordi Nadal

• Jordi Guilera and Sergio Espuelas talk of inequality in the newspaper Ara
  
  

• Eloi Serrano to L'Oracle, Catalunya Ràdio program
  
  

• Eloi Serrano article in La Vanguardia: "Empresas españolas, América Latina y marco institucional" (06/05/2012)
  
  

• Workshop: Times of crisis. Perspectives on the history of Catalonia, with participation of Jordi Catalan and Pere Pascual. 26 April at Cercle d'Economia
  
  

• Carles Sudrià intervention on Agora TV3 progam (view from minute 31:36)
  
  

• Carles Sudrià article in La Vanguardia: "Caixes: un final entre el silenci i la indiferència" (18/03/2012)
  
  

• Doctoral Seminar exchange agreement with University of Tübingen
  
  The PhD Programme in Economic History launches the Doctoral Seminar. As part of this Seminar, a student exchange has been agreed with the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
  
  
  
  
  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

• Paloma Fernández interviewed at colombian journal Portafolio
  
  

• Lecture by Paloma Fernández: "Golden Age of Growth and Golden Age of Change: Los Rockefeller y las dinastías de negocios norteamericanas ante las convulsiones de las décadas de 1960-1970", Bogtotá, 8 february 2012
  
  

• Paloma Fernández in Seminario Silla Corona (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia): "La modernización de los negocios familiares en la periferia del mundo: el caso catalán (mediados siglo XX-principios siglo XXI)", 7 february 2012
  
  

• 15 minutes with Jordi Nadal at UBTV
  
  

• Presentation the new edition of the book by Emilio Huguet del Villar El valor geográfico de España (1921), Enric Tello and Carles Sudrià interventions
  
  

• Fabián Estapé Angel Calvo's book review Historia de Telefónica, 1924-1975 in journal El Economista
  

• The Ministry of Education has awarded the PhD Program in History of Economic Statement to Excellence, to last until the year 2013-2014. The program received a score of 89% in the evaluation of doctoral programs conducted by ANECA to obtain the statement.
  
  

• The Teaching Innovation Group in Economic History, and Social Policy Department of Economic History and Economic Institutions received recognition for innovative teaching consolidated group for the period 2011-13, approved by the CACG 28 September at the suggestion of Vice-Rector for Teaching Policy and Science
  
  

• Book presentation Les chemins de l'industrialisation en Espagne et en France. Les PME et le développement de territoires (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles), Jordi Catalan intervention
  
  

• Jordi Catalan took part in El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio, Manuel Fuentes program, to discuss "Financial crises throughout history"
  
  

• The official journal of the Brazilian Association of Economic Historians has published the invited conference on possibilities and limitations of family business research in the world presented by professor Paloma Fernandez during the opening speech held in the annual congress of the association celebrated in Brasília on September 2010
  
  
  
  
  

• Los orígenes del estado del bienestar en España, 1900-1945, with contributions by Alfonso Herranz and Sergio Espuelas, UNE Prize for best monograph in the area of Legal Sciences, Economic and Social
  
  
  
  
  

• Educational Resources Database in Economic History, Social and Political now available.
  
  
  
  
  

• Ramon Ramon wins the only honorable mention in 1st edition of Eugenio Larruga Award prize awared by Asociación Española de Historia Económica (AEHE)
  
  

• The Revista de Historia Industrial improves position in recognizing international journals
  
  

• The Projects Committee of the BBVA Foundation has approved to support the study proposal "A century of changes,: empresarias families and family businesses in Latin America and Spain"presented by teachers Paloma Fernandez (UB) and Andrea Lluch (CONICET / Harvard University). The proposal includes a working meeting at the UB on 5 and 6 September 2011, and the establishment of a research group and work among members of the UB and the University of Zaragoza.
  
  

• Ricard Garcia Orallo wints Dr. Joan Mercader research prize to work Crisi, endeutament i despossessió al món rural català de finals del segle XIX.
  
  

• Presentation of Angel Calvo book Historia de Telefónica, 1924-1975. Madrid, 23 de març de 2011
  
  
  Press dossier
  

• Àngel Calvo presents at Centro de Historia de Zaragoza his book Historia de Telefónica, 1924-1975 on February 15, 2011.
  
  
  Press dossier

• Lluís Argemí in memoriam
  
  Lluís Argemí d'Abadal (1945-2007): remembering a smile
  
  

• Remembering Ernest Lluch
  
  Remembering in the Xarxa de Televisions Locals de Catalunya