El papel de los ingenieros y subalternos de MZA en las nuevas fórmulas mediáticas de la publicidad y la prensa durante el primer tercio del sigloXX

Cada uno por su lado, ferrocarriles, prensa y publicidad, estos sectores han dejado abundante documentación, pero no así sus relaciones, que tampoco han interesado a los historiadores suficientemente. Sobre estas relaciones sólo nos ha llegado un conjunto casi completo de documentos de empresa a través del archivo de MZA, la mayor, más estable y mejor capitalizada explotación de la Península Ibérica antes de la integración de todas las compañías en la Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles (RENFE) en 1941.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Análisis de la eficiencia técnica de los ferrocarriles europeos

En este documento nos proponemos realizar una aproximación al análisis de la eficiencia técnica de los ferrocarriles españoles y del resto de los países comunitarios. En este análisis es posible distinguir cinco apartados distintos. En el primero de ellos se intenta justificar por qué la elección del ferrocarril para llevar a cabo el referido estudio. En el segundo epígrafe se ofrece una síntesis descriptiva de algunos de los métodos más utilizados para analizar tanto la eficiencia técnica, como asignativa o económica de determinadas actuaciones del Sector Público. En el tercer apartado se lleva a cabo un cálculo de diferentes ratios de productividad a objeto de tener una primera aproximación a la eficiencia técnica de los ferrocarriles europeos. En el cuarto apartado se realiza una explotación de los datos estadísticos disponibles con el fin de explorar cuales pueden ser los determinantes del output en los ferrocarriles españoles y el resto de los países comunitarios. Y, finalmente, se ofrece una modesta aproximación econométrica a la evaluación de la eficiencia técnica del transporte ferroviario en Europa

Economic development in Spain, 1850-1936

Indicators of the good health of Spanish economic history include the growing number of publications in English, the proliferation in the number of academic journals within Spain, and the fact that the 1998 International Economic History Congress is to be held in Seville. It is not possible to provide here a general note on all aspects of recent research, but this essay offers a critical examination of the major arguments advanced for the slow growth in the Spanish economy over the century or so before the civil war of 1936-9. The period after 1936 has been excluded because, although many of the obstacles to development remained until the 1960s, three excellent surveys of the literature have recently been published.' Where possible, English versions of works are cited, and the essay lists only those Spanish publications which are likely to be relatively easily obtainable. After considering recent estimates of economic growth and development, the survey tries to explain the slow change by looking at three areas: agriculture, industry, and the role of the state.Publicad

Reglamento del Montepío de los Empleados de la Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Medina del Campo a Zamora y de Orense a Vigo aprobado por el Consejo Administrativo según acuerdos de 26 de Febrero y de 16 de Diciembre de 1903 y reformado por el de 11 de Octubre de 1921

Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2009-201

Renfe’s contribution to Spain’s economic growth between 1950 and 2000: sn initial estimation

The purpose of the article is to make a first appraisal of the contribution of the railway of Iberian gauge (Renfe) to the economic development experienced by the Spanish society throughout the second half of the 20th century. The text examine in the first place the benefits obtained by the different economic segments as a result of the rail-specific demand, and then proceeds to evaluate it in order to obtain its relative weight within the national economy. In the second section the same process is applied to the forward linkages, or effects on the economy of the availability of a more efficient transportation system.Economic History; Public Railway; RENFE; Railway History.

The Contribution of Railways to Economic Growth in Latin America before 1914: the cases of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina

This paper presents preliminary estimates of the contribution of the railway technology to GDP growth in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico before 1914, and compares them with the available figures for two European economies (Britain and Spain). The results of the estimation indicate that the growth contribution of railways was substantially higher in those three Latin American economies than in Britain or Spain, although in Argentina and Mexico that high contribution was disguised behind the fast growth of the aggregate economy. This result is interpreted as a sign of the central role that the railways performed in the export-led growth episode of those three economies.railways, Latin America, Growth Contribution, Internal Transport, Export-Led Growth

The contribution of railways to economic growth in Latin America before 1914: a growth accounting approach

Railways are usually considered as one of the most important innovations that fostered the transition of Latin America to economic growth before 1914. The social saving estimates that are available for several Latin American countries seem to confirm that view. However, the interpretation of the results of the social saving literature is not straightforward, since the comparison among social savings calculated for different countries and years may be troublesome, and the actual meaning of the social saving estimates is not clear. This paper suggests an alternative approach to the economic impact of railways in Latin America. It presents estimates of the direct growth contribution of the railway technology in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay before 1914, which are calculated on the basis of the growth accounting methodology. The outcomes of the estimation indicate that railway effects on Uruguayan economic growth were very low. By contrast, in the other three cases under study (Argentina, Mexico and Brazil) the railways provided huge direct benefits. In Argentina and Mexico, these amounted to between one fifth and one quarter of the total income per capita growth of the period under analysis. By contrast, in the case of Brazil, the outcomes of the analysis indicate that the direct contribution of railways to growth would have been higher than the whole income per capita growth of the Brazilian economy before 1914. This unexpected result might suggest that the national level is not the most adequate scale to analyse the economic impact of network infrastructure in the case of large, geographically unequal and insufficiently integrated developing economies.Railways; Latin America; Economic Growth