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- Title
La historiografía sobre las elites financieras europeas del largo siglo XIX: investigaciones, controversias y lagunas.
- Authors
Telesca, Giuseppe
- Abstract
This article provides an overview of the historiography of European financial elites from the 1970s and 1980s onwards. The interest in financial elites from the early nineteenth century to the First World War was a by-product of the 1970s discovery of the «discreet charm of the bourgeoisie». This, in turn, had been triggered by the diminishing faith in state interventionism and Keynesian prescriptions. A wealth of research was devoted to exploring the backgrounds, education, network of relationships and cultural values, and to measuring the influence of financial elites on, and their proximity to, others (political elites in particular). When in the 1990s political factors and methodological issues caused the interest of historians to wane, the British, French and German cases had been well explored. In contrast, much less work had been dedicated to other countries. The article summarises the main findings in the literature, and makes the case for enlarging its geographic scope. The time is ripe to know more about the Spanish financial elites of the nineteenth century.
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY; FINANCE companies; WORLD War I; KEYNESIAN economics; SCHOOLS of economics
- Publication
Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2023, Vol 130, Issue 2, p21
- ISSN
1134-2277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55509/ayer/1267