Miguel A. López-Morell- Phd Economic History
- Professor (Full) at University of Murcia
Miguel A. López-Morell
- Phd Economic History
- Professor (Full) at University of Murcia
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López-Morell is full professor of Economic History at University of Murcia in Spain. His research interests focus on business and economic history (foreign investments, banking, international raw materials markets, and family business). He has published La Casa Rothschild en España, 1812-1941 (English edition, 2012, The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812-1941), and he is editor of Minería y desarrollo Económico en España (2007), with Perceval and Sanchez.
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December 2008 - July 2017
October 2000 - present
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Un aniversario es un escenario proclive a la reflexión sosegada, para echar la vista atrás y hacer balance. Por tanto, no hay mejor ocasión que el centenario del Colegio de Economistas y sus antecesores para aportar una síntesis de la evolución económica de la Región de Murcia, desde su creación hasta el presente.
Este trabajo resume y analiza las...
This study seeks to analyze the continuity and survival of the mining sector in one of the most long-lived mining districts in the world, and the socioeconomic externalities that arose over a period of 150 years. Its most characteristic element was the development of two diametrically opposed business models in the same space: one based on a system...
Las alusiones a los negocios generados por la viuda de Fernando VII y reina regente, María Cristina de Borbón, y su segundo esposo, Agustín Muñoz, son una constante en la historiografía española y su actuación se considera uno de los mayores escándalos de corrupción de su historia. Sin embargo, no existe ningún estudio que cuantifique el origen, na...
Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla, Un hombre, mil negocios. La controvertida historia de Antonio López, marqués de Comillas, Barcelona, Ariel, 424 pp.
From the beginning of the twentieth century, the use of differential flotation gave rise to profound changes in mining as it enabled a wider range of minerals to be processed and low-grade and complex ores to be extracted profitably. This paper analyses how this technology spread throughout Spain, especially in the Sierra de Cartagena-La Unión, whe...
Three decades ago, and with very few precedents, Spain’s two principal banking corporations began an intense process of expansion throughout Latin America. Not only did they compete with one other in this new market, but they also faced competition from domestic Latin American banks and other foreign banks. This paper analyses the key elements that...
The Tragic Week of 1909 was one of the most disruptive events in contemporary Spanish history. This article seeks to reconsider the nature of the events based on the previously unseen personal archive of the then interior minister Juan de la Cierva. Evidence indicates that the chaotic, anticlerical, anti-military nature of the events should not be...
This article describes the features of the international mercury market during the first half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the various market agreements made, their effectiveness, and their consequences. The period studied is little understood, although it was one in which mercury production greatly increased. It was also one that saw pers...
Cueva Victoria, situada en el histórico distrito minero de Cartagena-La Unión (Murcia), es una mina-cueva de hierro y
manganeso, donde una parte de la explotación minera se hizo mediante la excavación de galerías en la roca, para extraer
mineralizaciones filonianas primarias, y otra parte aprovechando una cavidad kárstica natural, parcialmente rell...
The aim of this article is to analyse the strategies employed by the Rothschilds up to
1940 to gain control and limit competition in the international non-ferrous metals
markets. It examines how they opted for inelastic demand products of highly concentrated
supply which lent themselves to market control (mercury, nickel, lead, and
copper and sulph...
This article analyzes the sources available when studying the firms that have exploited underground resources
in Spain in contemporary times. The materials we have are diverse, given the variety of mining areas,
minerals, types of firms, nationalities involved, etc. Large businesses are covered, in the main, by business archives,
which have evolved...
This article analyzes the sources available when studying the firms that have exploited underground resources in Spain in contemporary times. The materials we have are diverse, given the variety of mining areas, minerals, types of firms, nationalities involved, etc. Large businesses are covered, in the main, by business archives, which have evolved...
Amongst the ranks of capitalists who drove European industrialisation
in the nineteenth century, the Rothschilds where amongst the most
dynamic and the most successful. Whilst their business interests
were of a global nature, this book explores the specific case of
Spain, where the House of Rothschild had extensive investments,
particularly in the...
Mercury has been one of the most persistent cases in contemporary history of international market regulations
and this in spite of its having been affected by important technological changes and the regular discovery of new
deposits. This paper offers an approach to the least known period, although perhaps the one in which the greatest
rises in pro...
Amongst the serried ranks of capitalists who drove European industrialisation in the nineteenth century, the Rothschilds were amongst the most dynamic and the most successful. Establishing businesses in Germany, Britain, France, Austria, and Italy the family soon became leading financiers, bankrolling a host of private and government businesses ven...
The Compañía Iberoamericana de Publicaciones (CIAP) was a Spanish book publishing house of unprecedented proportions. It appeared on the scene during the first third of the twentieth century at a time when winds of modernization were blowing through the book industry, which was acquiring characteristics that, for the first time, would lead to talk...
The Compañía Iberoamericana de Publicaciones (CIAP) was a Spanish book publishing house of unprecedented proportions. It appeared on the scene during the first third of the twentieth century at a time when winds of modernization were blowing through the book industry, which was acquiring characteristics that, for the first time, would lead to talk...
The aim of this article is to analyse the strategies employed by the Rothschilds until 1940 to limit competition in the non ferrous international market. We will study how they opted for rigid demand products of highly concentrated supply which were favourable to market control (mercury, nickel, lead and copper and sulphur) by assuming administrati...
This article analyzes the historical figure of Hilarión Roux. Banker from Marseille, in 1842 he
settled in Spain as correspondent of the House of Rothschild. In Cartagena he gradually take major interests in
mining industry and metallurgy, developing an emporium of mining properties in South Spain (specially in the
Cartagena-La Unión mountain range...
In the period between 1835 and 1931 the Rothschild House established one of the most complex and influential business networks in Spanish economic history. This network controlled a wide range of activities, including financial services for the Spanish Government and the Bank of Spain, as well as the management of industrial, mining and railway fir...
This article attempts to get a global view and new information about the presence of the mercury from Almadén in the international markets after the American emancipation to the Spanish Civil War. Specifically, it shows, in the one hand, the substantial transformation in the characteristics of the sales organization from the colonial to the contemp...
Taking business decisions in large corporations requires the establishment of a competent network to channel information, permit the delegation of routine decisions, and assure the whole process is undertaken in the strictest confidence. Recent theories on social networks and the carrying out of the entrepreneurial function tackle these questions a...
This article attempts to get a global view and new information about the presence of the mercury from Almadén in the international markets
after the American emancipation to the Spanish Civil War. Specifically, it shows, in the one hand, the substantial transformation in
the characteristics of the sales organization from the colonial to the contemp...
In the period between 1835 and 1931 the Rothschild House established one of the most complex and influential business networks in Spanish economic history. This network controlled a wide range of activities, including financial services for the Spanish Government and the Bank of Spain, as well as the management of industrial, mining and railway fir...
Este trabajo intenta analizar el papel que desempeñaron los capitales movilizados por la Casa de banca Rothschild en la financiación de los gastos del Estado español durante el Siglo XIX. Por lo tanto, se pretende aportar una cronología elemental de las relaciones de la Casa Rothschild con las finanzas públicas españolas durante todo el periodo, an...
This article describes the main lines of the historical evolution of the Société Minière et Metallurgique Peñarroya. This concern, starting from a modest origin, was able to develop a steady process of growing that led it, at the beginning of 1920¿s, to the first place among the world lead producers and the top in the industrial enterprises in Spai...
Este trabajo pretende describir las líneas fundamentales de la evolución histórico-empresarial de la Sociedad Minera y Metalúrgica Peñarroya, una entidad que pudo desplegar, partiendo de unos orígenes más bien modestos, un proceso ininterrumpido de expansión que le llevaría a alcanzar, desde la segunda década del siglo XX, el primer puesto en la pr...
If until 1914 pirites had been the almost exclusive raw material in the obtention of
sulphuric acid the world over and the majority of copper, the end of the First World War
brought the end of this hegemony and the beginning of a hard reconversion in the
business sector.
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