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Regina Grafe, Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: 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 ex...

Source: OEconomia

DOI: 10.4000/oeconomia.1273

Author: José Jurado-Sánchez

Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Language: English

Topic: Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2188751960

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