Description
Book SynopsisInstitutions and their history matter; and not only because they are crucial elements in explaining a country?s socio-political evolution, but also as determinant factors of economic development, wealth and prosperity.
Usually, the history of institutions has been taught the point of view of legal science, an approach that made the topic little attractive and often difficult to assimilate for students of other fields such as Economics, Business Studies, Marketing and others.
And precisely these groups are the ones that this book addresses. It presents, in a rigorous yet entertaining way the evolution of Spanish institutions the first human settlements in the peninsula to date and does so explaining the main points in a succinct, but well-contextualised form. For this purpose, each chapter combines the exposition of a given period?s historic facts with the description of its most characteristic institutions. Each chapter then complements its content by explaining the history of one
