El teatre a les societats particulars de Barcelona durant els anys de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). El CADCI i l’Ateneu Obrer del districte II

Aquest treball és una primera aproximació al magmàtic món del teatre societari barceloní de principis de segle XX. Vol ser una radiografia, primer, en forma d’estat de la qüestió general, i després, en forma d’anàlisi de dos casos concrets, el CADCI i l’Ateneu Obrer del districte II, de tots els aspectes que engloba el fet teatral en aquests espais: des dels repertoris al funcionament de les companyies, passant per la recepció, el paper del públic o la importància del teatre com a eina política i de transmissió generacional del coneixement. Tot això en el context d’uns anys de crisi del món teatral, en general, i del teatre català, en particular.

Anna Senyé, poeta

Anna Senyé, poeta és un treball que explora la vida i el treball literari d’una poeta catalana anònima. Anna Senyé Ramisa (Manlleu, 1881-Barcelona, 1956) fou una dona de caràcter aventurer que va tenir una vida poc convencional. Va escriure en diferents revistes i diaris catalans des de 1914 i durant la primera meitat del segle vint, tant com a poeta com a periodista i activista social, amb la publicació d’articles i manifestos en defensa dels drets dels animals. Senyé també participà en els Jocs Florals i va guanyar-hi premis en els celebrats a l’Escala i Molins de Rei. L’any 1922 va publicar el seu treball poètic en un volum, Remolinada. Els seus poemes mostren el seu amor pels animals i la natura, així com també el record de la infantesa a la seva vila natal. Presentem quatre retrats de l’escriptora: el ‘Retrat de la família’, el ‘Retrat de la dona’, el ‘de la poeta’ i finalment, el ‘Retrat de la viatgera’. Amb aquests retrats, els poemes d’Anna Senyé deixen de ser oblidats i la poeta passa a formar part de la genealogia d’escriptores catalanes. Paraules clau: Anna Senyé, poesia catalana, gènere i literatura.

Growing at the production frontier. European aggregate growth, 1870-1914

The view of a 1870-1913 expanding European economy providing increasing welfare to everybody has been challenged by many, then and now. We focus on the amazing growth that was experienced, its diffusion and its sources, in the context of the permanent competition among European nation states. During 1870-193 the globalized European economy reached a silver age . GDP growth was quite rapid (2.15% per annum) and diffused all over Europe. Even discounting the high rates of population growth (1.06%), per capita growth was left at a respectable 1.08%. Income per capita was rising in every country, and the rates of improvement were quite similar. This was a major achievement after two generations of highly localized growth, both geographically and socially. Growth was based on the increased use of labour and capital, but a good part of growth (73 per cent for the weighted average of the best documented European countries) came out of total factor productivity efficiency gains resulting from not well specified ultimate sources of growth. This proportion suggests that the European economy was growing at full capacity at its production frontier. It would have been very difficult to improve its performance. Within Europe, convergence was limited, and it only was in motion after 1900. What happened was more the end of the era of big divergence rather than an era of convergence.

Productividad, competencia e innovación en la banca privada española (1900-1914)

This study investigates the productivity differences and its sourcesacross a set of banks during the last years of the liberal era of theSpanish banking system (1900-1914). These years were characterised bymajor qualitative and quantitative changes in the banking industry includinga sharp increase in the size of the system, in the number of firms, andin its regional distribution. Employing DEA productivity analysis andthe Malmquist index, we discover that these changes were accompanied bya generalised increase in the efficiency of least productive banks. Also,we observe that the crisis of some regional banking groups, like theCatalan, can be linked with its low productivity levels. In consequence,in the light of our productivity evidence, we conclude that the increasein competition was beneficial for the system because helped to the successof the most efficient banks.

Protectionist but globalised? Latin American custom duties and trade during the pre-1914 belle époque

While it is true that Latin American republics had no rival on maximising revenues from custom collection during the belle époque, this paper shows that Latin American countries were also generous importers, only behind the larger commercial countries of Western Europe in terms of imports per capita. Latin American citizens were much more linked to international trade than citizens of most regions of the world. Their relation to the world economy was tighter both via their imports and their exports relative to their population and income levels. This paper comes to show that there is no contradiction between the high custom collection by the Latin American republics and their high level of interaction with the global economy in the pre-1914 belle époque, although large country differences can be observed when descending from the regional to the national level.