Elites y poderes económicos en la España del siglo XX

Abstract

The historical production on élites and economic power groups in Spain in the last four decades is revisited following the important studies of Manuel Tuñón de Lara. The first third of the 20th century and the Franco’s regime represent a network of political friends and advantageous enrichment, but it becomes much more complex in the democratic era. The knowledge of the State role in the main economic decisions, of the great wealth distribution, of the evolution of major enterprises and of the differential accumulation in some country areas, make possible the evaluation of authentic means of economic power, and also, of the social and the political power, so linked to it.