Seminario: Lei Shi (UAB) – Reconfiguration of China’s occupational structure during early industrialization, 1900-1937
Seminario 23/09 – Miguel López Morell (Universidad de Murcia) y Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) – Expanding and integrating Spanish banking networks and IT systems in Latin America
Abstract Topic: Revisit the extant literature on the growth of Spanish banks in Latin America through the analysis of the processes of IT integration. We explore the technological and management issues around the implementation of global platforms (developed by either third parties or at head office) which replaced, interfaced or co-existed with pre-existing local IT…
Seminario 23/06 – Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) – The introduction of the British debit card at the dawn of the digital economy, 1980s-1990s
Abstract Debit card payments are the cornerstone of the cashless economy. They exemplify the transfer of monetary balances, enabling on-the-spot transactions through online, real-time, electronic networks. While debit cards were an aspiration in the 1960s, it was during the mid-1970s that the first significant attempts were made to make these aspirations a reality in the…
Seminario 23/04 – Víctor Luque (U. Almería) -Cadenas migratorias en la configuración de las comunidades mineras en la España del s. XIX: el caso de Linares
Resumen A lo largo del siglo XIX se produjo en el ´ámbito europeo un considerable aumento de las migraciones exteriores e interiores. Tradicionalmente la historiografía ha considerado que en España los movimientos migratorios permanentes, tanto internos como externos, durante la mayor parte del siglo XIX fueron relativamente débiles en comparación con las de otros países…
Seminario 22/18: Manuel Pérez García (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) – Global Trade in Imperial China and Spain: GECEM Project Database and Big Data Mining (1680-1840)
Abstract Within the framework of the current global crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic and the hegemonic role of China in the world economy, the revision of China’s socioeconomic and political transformation from imperial Qing dynasty until the present day is paramount. This presentation focuses on a crucial period in the history of China, the…
Seminario 22/16: Lisard Palau (Universidad de Barcelona) – La formación del mercado de trabajo en las colonias industriales de Catalunya, 1900-1936
Cuando hablamos de las colonias industriales textiles nos estamos refiriendo, seguramente, a uno de los fenómenos más característicos de la industrialización de Catalunya. Surgidas mayormente a partir de los años setenta del siglo XIX, tendieron a ubicarse a lo largo de los cursos fluviales de los ríos Llobregat, Ter y afluentes para utilizar el agua…
Seminario 22/14. Paul De Grauwe (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) – Trust and monetary policy
El eminente economista Paul De Grauwe, en la víspera del día de la ceremonia en la que tendrá lugar su investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Murcia, impartirá un seminario/conferencia dirigido a los estudiantes del programa de doctorado DEcIDE y, en general, a todos los estudiantes y profesores de la Facultad de…
