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This text provides an in-depth examination of the Basque economy over the last two centuries, focusing on the main sociopolitical and economic factors that have configured it up to the present, and includes a physical and institutional geography that places the Basque economy within the broader context of Basque society. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies.
In the social economy area and, more concretely, in the cooperative field, the Basque Country has, no doubt unintentionally, become a worldwide benchmark. The dynamism that energizes Basque social initiatives has resulted in outstanding examples of good practices where firms' priorities are guided by social aims that respond to social needs, steering clear of the commercial profit mechanisms that are the main global driver of private economic initiative. This work, in nine chapters, addresses a wide range of contemporary aspects of the contemporary Basque social economy: the social economy concept; third social sector; legal framework; reality and development in the Autonomous Community of Euskadi; promotion of the Social Economy in Navarre; typology of public policies for the advancement of the Social Economy in Europe; associated work cooperatives in the Northern Basque Country; viability of globalization of cooperatives without risking loss of their hallmark principles and values; and tenant cooperatives. With this book we hope to make a modest contribution to encourage knowledge and reflection on the rich and complex dynamic that informs the Basque social economy today.
This work studies and analyses the reality of the different families that shape the Social Economy in the Basque Country: Cooperatives, Labour Companies, Special Employment Centers, Work Integration Social Enterprises, Fishermen’s Guilds, Agricultural Transformation Societies, Mutual Societies, Associations, and Foundations. An aggregate study of the Social Economy in the Basque Country is also carried out and a reference to the Solidarity Economy is made.For each of them, its specific legal structure is analyzed, updated socio-economic data is provided, their associative structure is described, and the driving notions that characterize them and their challenges as a family of the Social Economy are discussed.The work has been carried out with the sponsorship of the Social Economy Directorate of the Department of Labour and Employment of the Basque Government, the joint work of the Basque Universities: University of the Basque Country, University of Deusto and the Mondragon University. It has also counted on the collaboration of each of the entities representing the Social Economy sector in the Basque Country.
Three institutions that are of particular importance to Basque history and culture are the main subject of this book: the basseria (the Basque farmstead), the cofradia (the fraternity of fishermen) and the txoko (gastronomic society).
Davyyd Greenwood examines why the successful Basque maximisers of economic gain ultimately rejected economic rewards in favour of other values.
Study of the ongoing political and economic restructuring of Spain and relationship between central and regional authorities and the place of the Basque Country in Spain and Europe within debates on internal processes that shaped Spanish nation- and state-building, and the post-Franco restructuring within global economic restructuring and the political restructuring of Europe
This paper investigates the economic effects of conflict, using the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country as a case study. Our analysis rests on two different strategies. First, we use a combination of other regions to construct a 'synthetic' control region which resembles many relevant economic characteristics of the Basque Country before the outset of political terrorism in the 1970's. The subsequent economic evolution of this 'counterfactual' Basque Country without terrorism is compared to the actual experience of the Basque Country. We find that, after the outbreak of terrorism, per capita GDP in the Basque Country declined about 10 percent points relative to the synthetic control region. Moreover, this gap seemed to widen in response to spikes in terrorist activity. The second part of this study uses the truce declared in September 1998 as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of the conflict. If the terrorist conflict was perceived to have a negative impact on the Basque economy, stocks of firms with a significant part of their business in the Basque Country should have shown a positive relative performance as the truce became credible, and a negative relative performance at the end of the cease-fire. We find evidence that is consistent with this conjecture using event study methods
A concise survey of the Spanish economy from the end of the Civil War of 1936-9 to the present, written specifically for students.