Plurinational states and infrastructures

Authors

  • Germà Bel i Queralt UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

Abstract

Mature economies tend to invest less in new construction and more in maintenance and management. This is particularly important in the case of Spain, which in addition to being a mature economy presents a huge excess capacity in all interurban modes, and particularly in the radial corridors. The key to a reorganisation of the infrastructure policy in a hypothetical state that recognises itself as multinational is the transfer of management to units forming the federation; in some cases, ownership should be transferred as well. In this regard, this paper presents a new model of infrastructure policy for a different Spain, and it does so by taking advantage of lessons taught from other infrastructure policies widely applied in parts of Europe and the US.

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Author Biography

Germà Bel i Queralt, UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

Germà Bel i Queralt is a senior professor. He graduated in Economics at the Universitat de Barcelona, earned a
Master’s Degree in Economics at the University of Chicago, and was awarded his PhD in Economics from the
Universitat de Barcelona. He was given the William E. and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the Best Article written
by an academic in 2009 from the American Society for Public Administration and won the award for the Best
Paper in 2010 from the US Academy of Management. He was also awarded the XIII Premi Catalunya d’Economia
(Societat Catalana d’Economia–Institut d’Estudis Catalans) for the best research on Economics in 2011, for the book
España, capital París, (Barcelona, Destino 2010 [Spanish]; Barcelona, La Campana 2011 [Catalan]).

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Published

2017-12-19

How to Cite

Bel i Queralt, G. (2017) “Plurinational states and infrastructures”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 2. Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1716 (Accessed: 22 December 2024).

Issue

Vol. 2 (2017): Annual Review 2

Section

SPECIAL ISSUE 1

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