Regina Grafe, Distant Tyranny
Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13034636 |
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| Authors | José Jurado-Sánchez (0000-0003-4434-609X, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 2-4 |
| Pages | 532-537 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OEconomia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2113-5207 • E-ISSN: 2269-8450 |
| Publisher | Association Œconomia (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.4000/oeconomia.1273 |
| OpenAlex | W2188751960 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Distant Tyranny by Regina Grafe is a thought-provoking and polemical book which develops its account of early modern Spain over eight chapters. Her author faces a great challenge: to explain why economic development, market integration, and the creation of the modern state were so slow in Spain. Grafe refuses the dominant theories of political economy, that put the emphasis on the predatory state, and argues that the problem was largely because the state never was enough autonomous. There exi
Backwardness · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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