Spain

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A market defined by a savings-bank-funded property bubble, its bailout and the export-led recovery afterwards; the English-language business literature is thin, and the strongest work is financial history and crisis reporting.

9 books

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  1. Ghosts of SpainGiles Tremlett, 2006
  2. After the FallTobias Buck, 2019
  3. Lending to the Borrower from HellMauricio Drelichman, Hans-Joachim Voth, 2014

Books 9

Making Mondragon
T2 Making Mondragon
William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte · 1988 · The Basque cooperative group studied as an actual operating model.
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Ghosts of Spain
T2 Ghosts of Spain
Giles Tremlett · 2006 · Written into the property boom; explains the regional politics of credit.
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Building a Global Bank
T2 Building a Global Bank
Mauro F. Guillen, Adrian Tschoegl · 2008 · How Santander went from domestic lender to global acquirer.
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Lending to the Borrower from Hell
T2 Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Mauricio Drelichman, Hans-Joachim Voth · 2014 · Philip II's serial defaults, and why bankers kept lending anyway.
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The New Spaniards
T3 The New Spaniards
John Hooper · 1995 · The standard survey of post-Franco institutions and business culture.
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Lessons from the Economic Crisis in Spain
T3 Lessons from the Economic Crisis in Spain
Sebastian Royo · 2013 · The cajas, the construction boom and the political economy of the bailout.
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Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015
T3 Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015
Leandro Prados de la Escosura · 2017 · The long-run reconstruction of Spanish output and productivity.
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After the Fall
T3 After the Fall
Tobias Buck · 2019 · The crisis, the bank rescue and the shape of the recovery.
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The Man from Zara
T4 The Man from Zara
Covadonga O'Shea · 2012 · Amancio Ortega and the fast-fashion supply chain he built at Inditex.
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