Aproximación a los estudios sobre la economía en la Segunda República española hasta 1936

Abstract

Macroeconomic data on the Spanish economy during the Second Republic is not accurate, the interpretation of historical events from the fig­ures obtained is divergent and misleading. Hasty laws were enacted in attempts to resolve social problems arising mainly from deep economic in­equalities, but they were often nothing more than declarations of good intentions. Spain suffered in the aftermath of the international economic downturn as it began to be felt at the end of the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera. Eco­nomic policy was developed under the Constitu­tion, but, despite the differences between the first and second biennium, there was a tendency to maintain the guidelines from the previous stage and in general, sometimes unfairly, it aimed at least to avoid the destabilization of the financial system. Nonetheless, it ultimately failed to achieve its goals, mainly because of the frequent changes of government mediated by a social crisis of great­er significance that had relegated economic issues into the background.