sample of publications

• articles 

  • Inequelity beyond GDP: A long view.  REVIEW OF INCOME AND WEALTH.  69:533-554. 2023
  • On well-being and freedom: a response to Branko Milanovic.  Rivista di Storia Economica.  XXXIX:125-126. 2023
  • Health, income, and the preston curve: A long view.  Economics & Human Biology.  48:1-10. 2023
  • From subjectivity to inter-subjectivity? Not quite so!.  Rivista di Storia Economica.  38:385-386. 2022
  • A not-so-silly debate! Response to Jan Luiten van Zanden's review.  Rivista di Storia Economica.  38:377-381. 2022
  • Morten Jerven, the wealth and poverty of African States: Economic growth, living standards and taxation since the late nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 198. ISBN 9781108341080. [Book Review].  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  75:1388-1390. 2022
  • War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe.  EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY.  86:1-11. 2022
  • The industrial revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence?.  Journal of Global History.  17:159-164. 2022
  • Capital in Spain, 1850-2019.  Cliometrica.  16:1-18. 2022
  • ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH IN HISTORY.  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS.  35:655-669. 2021
  • ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH: SPAIN, 1850-2019.  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS.  35:804-832. 2021
  • Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain?.  Cliometrica.  2021
  • Economic Effects of the Black Death: Spain in European Perspective.  Investigaciones de Historia Economica.  16:35-48. 2020
  • Foreign capital in 19th century Spain's investment boom.  European Review of Economic History.  24:314-331. 2020
  • Dos siglos de moderno crecimiento económico en España.  Papeles de economía española.  2-14. 2020
  • Desigualdad y libertad económica: ¿existe un dilema? = Inequality and economic freedom: is there a dilemma?.  Información comercial española.  27-40. 2019
  • 'Pace' Baudelaire? Comment on 'Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School', by Stefano Fenoaltea.  Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.  53:25-30. 2019
  • Foreign capital in 19th century Spain's investment boom.  European Review of Economic History.  1-18. 2018
  • Spanish agriculture in the little divergence.  European Review of Economic History.  20:452-477. 2016
  • Mismeasuring long-run growth: the bias from splicing national accounts-the case of Spain.  Cliometrica.  10:251-275. 2016
  • Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995.  BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW.  90:387-390. 2016
  • Economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD countries (1850-2007).  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  69:435-468. 2016
  • The little big number: how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it.  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  69:743-744. 2016
  • Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective.  Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.  16:342-373. 2015
  • World Human Development: 1870-2007.  REVIEW OF INCOME AND WEALTH.  61:220-247. 2015
  • The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence [book review].  INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REVIEW.  35:419-420. 2013
  • Human development in Africa: A long-run perspective.  EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY.  50:179-204. 2013
  • Output per Head in Pre-Independence Africa: Quantitative Conjectures.  Economic History of Developing Regions.  27:1-36. 2012
  • Trade and poverty : when the Third World fell behind [book review].  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  65:1202-1203. 2012
  • The rise and fall of Spain (1270-1850).  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  66:1-37. 2012
  • Economic reforms and growth in Franco's Spain.  Revista de Historia Economica.  30:45-89. 2012
  • Top incomes : a global perspective [book review].  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  64:1068-1069. 2011
  • Daniel Waldenström, Lifting All Boats? The Evolution of Income and Wealth Inequality over the Path of Development, Lund Studies in Economic History 51, Lund, Lund University, 2009, 265 pp., ISBN 978-91-628-7924-2..  Scandinavian Economic History Review.  59:83-85. 2011
  • Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View.  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS.  24:841-894. 2010
  • Latin American Inequality in the Long Run.  Revista de Historia Economica.  28:219-226. 2010
  • Latin American Inequality in the Long Run : editor's note.  Revista de Historia Economica.  28:219-226. 2010
  • Human Capital and Economic Growth in Spain, 1850-2000.  EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY.  520-532. 2010
  • Spain's International Position, 1850-1913.  Revista de Historia Economica.  28:173-209. 2010
  • Capital Accumulation in the Long Run: The Case of Spain, 1850-2000.  Research in Economic History (Research in Economic History).  27:141-200. 2010
  • Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America.  JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES.  41:279-307. 2009
  • The Sources of Long-Run Growth in Spain,1850-2000.  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY.  69:1063-1091. 2009
  • Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States.  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.  62:770-772. 2009
  • Contract Enforcement, Capital Accumulation, and Argentina's long-run Decline.  Cliometrica.  3:1-26. 2009
  • Del Cosmos al Caos: la serie del PIB de maluquer de Motes (REA, 49) = The Cosmos to chaos: The series of Gdp of maluquer de Motes (SSA 49).  Revista de Economia Aplicada (Revista de Economia Aplicada).  17:5-23. 2009
  • Inequality, Poverty and the Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1850-2000.  European Review of Economic History.  12:287-324. 2008

• book chapters 

  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Watershed in Spanish History. In: The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth.  Brill. 171-204. 2022
  • Economic Development in Spain, 1815-2017. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1-25. 2019
  • La economía. In: Nueva historia de la España contemporánea : (1808-2018).  Galaxia Gütemberg. 243-266. 2018
  • The Economy. In: The History of Modern Spain: chronologies, themes, individual.  Bloomsbury. 133-147. 2018
  • Capitalism and human welfare. In: The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Vol. 2.  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2014
  • Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View. In: Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics.  Wiley-Blackwell. 87-140. 2011
  • Trade and Empire. In: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Volume 1, 1700-1870.  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 96-121. 2010
  • Hispanoamérica tras la independencia: un balance de su evolución económica 1820-1870. In: Las independencias hispanoamericanas: interpretaciones 200 años después.  GRUPO EDITORIAL NORMA. 2009

• books 

  • Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015.  Cham: SPRINGER. 2017

• conference contributions 

  • Assessing Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007) 2014
  • Assessing economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD countries (1850-2007) 2014
  • Assessing negative freedom: economic liberty in the long run 2014
  • Economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007) 2014
  • Economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD countries (1850-2007) 2014
  • Human development as positive freedom: Latin America in historical perspective 2014
  • Human development as positive freedom: a world view since 1870 2014
  • Long-term growth 2014
  • Conferencia inaugural 2013
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2013
  • Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective 2012
  • Human development in Africa: a Long-run Perspective 2012
  • Human development in Latin America, Agency and Freedom 1820-2007 2012
  • International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards 2012
  • Output per Head in Pre-independence Africa 2012
  • The Rise and Fall of Spain, 1270-1850 (Stellenbosch, 2012) 2012
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2012
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2012
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2012
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2012
  • Comentarista de la ponencia, A Sectoral Analysis of Italy's Development 1861-2011 2011
  • Growth and Wellbeing in the Long-run: Spain in the Italian Mirror 2011
  • The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850) (Bergen, 2011) 2011
  • The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850) (Dublin, 2011) 2011
  • Wellbeing in the Long-run 2011
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2011

• working papers 

  • Economic freedom in Retrospect 2023
  • Subjective Well-being in Spain's Decline 2023
  • Health, income, and the Preston Curve: a long view 2022
  • The Industrial Revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence? 2021
  • Inequality beyond GDP: a long view 2021
  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Watershed in Spanish History? 2020
  • Accounting for growth in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Capital in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Accounting for growth in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Accounting for growth in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Capital in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Capital in Spain, 1850-2019 2020
  • Growth, war, and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run 2020
  • Economic effects of the Black Death: Spain in European perspective (Serie Economic History) 2020
  • Economic effects of the Black Death: Spain in European perspective (Serie European Historical Economics Society) 2020
  • Growth, war, and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run 2020
  • Growth, war, and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run 2020
  • Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain: half a millennium perspective (Serie Economic History) 2020
  • Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain: half a millennium perspective (Discussion Papers) 2020
  • Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain: half a millennium perspective (Serie European Historical Economics Society) 2020
  • Economic Development in Spain, 1815-2017 2019
  • Human Development in the Age of Globalisation 2019
  • Living Standards, Inequality, and Human Development since 1870 : a Review of Evidence 2019
  • Well-being Inequality in the Long Run 2018
  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Watershed in Spanish History? 2018
  • Foreign Capital in 19th Century Spain's Investment Boom 2018
  • Spain's Historical National Accounts: Expenditure and Output, 1850-2015 2016
  • Spanish Agriculture in the Little Divergence 2016
  • Agriculture in Europe's little divergence: the case of Spain 2015
  • Human Development as Positive Freedom : Latin America in Historical Perspective 2015
  • Mismeasuring long run growth : the bias from spliced national accounts 2014
  • Economic freedom in the long run : evidence from OECD countries (1850-2007) 2014
  • Human Development as Positive Freedom: A World View since 1870 2014
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2013
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2013
  • World Human Development, 1870-2007 2013
  • Output per head in pre-independence Africa : quantitative conjectures 2012
  • Human development in Africa : a long-run perspective 2011
  • Economic Reforms and Growth in Franco's Spain 2011
  • The rise and fall of Spain (1270-1850) (Serie Economic History) 2011
  • Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 2010
  • Stabilization and Growth under Dictatorship: The Experience of Franco's Spain 2010
  • Spain's International Position, 1850-1913 2009
  • Human Capital and Economic Growth in Spain, 1850-2000 2009
  • Del Cosmos al Caos: la serie del PIB de Maluquer de Motes 2009
  • Proximate Causes of Economic Growth in Spain, 1850-2000 2008
  • Trade and Empire, 1700-1870 2008
  • Long-Run Estimates of Physical Capital in Spain, 1850-2000 2008
  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Watershed in Spanish History? 2008