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During the international depression of the 1930s, commentators south of the Pyrenees continued to assert that Spain, because of her relative economic backwardness together with the effects of a sustained drive towards autarky over the previous quarter of a century, remained virtually isolated from the worst consequences of the greatest crisis which the capitalist system had ever experienced.1 In a recent survey article two leading Spanish economic historians contend that The most serious problems facing the [Spanish] republic were not to come from coincidental external circumstances [but from] longer standing, basic internal problems such as agriculture… It is from here that originate most of the strains and stresses that were to explode in a bloody civil war’.2
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See especially Servicio de Estudios del Banco de Espana, Ritmo de la crisis economica espanola en relacion con la mundial (Madrid: 1934) p. 354.
Josep Fontana and Jordi Nadal, ‘Spain, 1914–70’, in Carlo M. Cipolla (ed.), The Fontana Economic History of Europe, vol. 6, ii (London and Glasgow: 1976) pp. 485–86.
See Manuel-Jesus Gonzalez, ‘Neomercantilismo en Madrid: dos economistas de postguerra’, Informacion Comercial Espanola, 517 (1976), 125–43.
Pedro Schwartz, ‘Politics First: The Economy After Franco’, Government and Opposition, 11 (1976) p. 85.
On this period see Joan Clavera et al., Capitalismo espanol: de la autarquia a la estabilizacion, 1939–59, 2 vols (Madrid: 1973);
and Manuel-Jesus Gonzalez, La economica politica del Franquismo: 1940–70: dirigismo, mercado y planificacion (Madrid: 1979).
See Charles W. Anderson, The Political Economy of Modern Spain: Policy Making in an Authoritarian State (Wisconsin: 1970) pp. 130–1.
Juan Munoz et al., La internacionalizacion del capital en Espana, 1959–77 (Madrid: 1978) pp. 68, 124–30.
Banco de Bilbao, Renta nacional de Espana y su distribucion provincial, 1975 (Bilbao, 1977), pp. 34, 45.
On this transitional period see Stanley Meisler, ‘Spain’s New Democracy’, Foreign Affairs, 56 (1977–8), pp. 190–208.
See Jose Luis Garcia Delgado and Julio Segura, Reformismo y crisis economical la herencia de la dictadura (Madrid: 1977), pp. 89–132.
Michael Noelke and Robert Taylor, La industria espanola cara al Mercado Comun: el impacto de la adhesion, cited in El Pais (11 Jan. 1980).
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Harrison, J. (1982). Spain: the End of the Miracle. In: Cox, A. (eds) Politics, Policy and the European Recession. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05764-1_8
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