Este artículo estudia la revista Economía Española (1933-1936) como uno de los canales institucionales de divulgación de la ciencia económica durante los años 30. La importancia de la revista en el ámbito de la economía y la contribución de los principales economistas españoles del periodo hacen de la misma un observatorio que ofrece una fiel visión del estado de la ciencia económica en España tanto a nivel teórico, aplicado como institucional. Su estudio también nos permite valorar el reconocimiento público de la comunidad de economistas y realizar una primera aproximación a la divulgación e influencia de las ideas de los economistas en la esfera pública española durante el periodo de la II República.
The article analyzes the economic entries of the main Spanish general encyclopedias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Diccionario enciclopédico (1887–1898) and Enciclopedia universal (1908–1930). Both works include the contributions of prestigious Spanish and Latin American intellectuals, and were designed for distribution in Spain and Latin American markets. Diccionario enciclopédico was the first to introduce the “social question” in its economic entries, which were drafted by the most outstanding Spanish economists at the time. These entries were characterized by the absence of any significant mention of historicism and marginalism, which illustrates the isolationism of Spanish economists during the late nineteenth century. Enciclopedia universal, on the other hand, was not entirely drafted by academic economists. Nevertheless, its economic entries account for a complete outline of marginalism, Marxism, and historicism. Apart from the traditional goals of compiling the intellectual advances made in any area of human knowledge for educational purposes, the economic entries of both encyclopedias aimed at popularizing some kind of economic knowledge in order to prepare minds for the reception of specific doctrines and agendas: the secular social doctrine of Spanish Krausism and the religious Social Catholicism, respectively.
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