Projection and Background

The Interuniversity PhD Programme in Economic History brings together three of the highest-quality and internationally renowned teams of economic historians in Spain, stemming from a tradition that dates back to the 1950s and the work of professors such as Jaume Vicens Vives and Jordi Nadal.

A significant portion of the faculty involved in the program is integrated into Catalonia's consolidated research groups: “Economic History and Development (Industry, Business, Sustainability)” i “Institutions and Political Economy Research Group”. In Madrid, the research group “H-Glacial: Historias de los capitalismos latinos globales”. And in Valencia, the Generalitat Valenciana's research excellence group: "From the Financial Crisis to the Digital Revolution."

The establishment of the Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences at Carlos III University of Madrid (focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of social issues from a historical perspective) and the Jordi Nadal Center for Economics and Economic History Studies at the University of Barcelona are additional examples of the potential of this collective in the field of research.
 

The Interuniversity PhD programme in Economic History has two direct precedents in the Doctoral Programmes in Economic History of the Universities of Barcelona and Carlos III of Madrid.

The first of them has a long history. Under the name of Doctorate in History and Economic Institutions, it came into operation in the 1991-1992 academic year, and from the following academic year it acquired an inter-university nature when it was carried out jointly by the Universities of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The programme received the Quality Mention from the Ministry of Education in its first call, in 2003, having renewed it without interruption until its extinction in the 2010-2011 academic year. The programme also received ADQUA aid (granted by the Department of Universities of the Generalitat of Catalonia) in the 2003 call. Subsequently, after the adaptation of the programme to the European Higher Education Area starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, and now as a PhD Program in Economic History at the University of Barcelona, the programme received the Mention Towards Excellence from the Ministry of Education, with a score of 89%.

The second precedent of this proposal is the PhD Programme in Economic History of the Carlos III University of Madrid. This programme was approved by the Governing Council of said University on December 20, 2005, being launched in the 2006-2007 academic year and adapting to the European Higher Education Area in the 2009-2010 academic year.