Los harinócratas . Organizaciones, mercado e inquietudes inversoras de los empresarios de Castilla la Vieja y León, 1820-1868
Journal: Investigaciones de Historia Económica
Year: 2016

This paper defends the thesis that around flour businesses, in the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Old Castile, companies emerged that were comparable in size, organization and investment propensity of their owners. The sector was characterized, from a business point of view, by high horizontal and vertical concentration. That is, flour companies were strong and highly diversified but they maintained their family nature. There were no major distinctions between business and family. T