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Throughout its long life the Department of Economic History and Institutions has been regarded to be one of the most active and innovative centres in Economic History in Catalonia and Spain. It is well known not only for the research developed in the fields of history of industry and finance, business history, agrarian and environmental history, and studies on globalization and long-term inequality, but on its graduate and postgraduate courses as well. Currently, it teaches various courses offered in the degrees of Economics, Business Administration and Management, Sociology, Political Science, Public Policies and Labour Relations. In 2007 the Department created its own research institute called Centre d'Estudis Antoni de Capmany. The Revista de Historia Industrial, one of the leading journal in the field, has been published by this Department since 1992. It has created, jointly with the Department of Economics and buy Cialis 20mg Economic History of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Interuniversity Doctorate Programme on Economic History and Institutions. This PhD programme, which has attracted students from various countries in Europe and Latin America since 1991, has been recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education for its high quality, and has offered students the possibility of writing a wealth of PhD thesis.