Time and space set the stage on which human societies interpret different stories. One of them, the economic history illustrates about arrangements made between people and the physical environment in order to ensure their survival and reproduction. Improve the quality of life, and distributors for the supply of goods and services ion has demanded the management of complex variables: institutions, technological innovation, saving, environmental interventions, more or less dynamic social, cultural codes and values? This manual is pursued tell that particular story, economic, in its dual Spanish and international dimension. It is, as all, a story of winners and losers. Know we will all be better able to understand the present, act on it and prevent future; ignore inevitably condemn us to repeat the past.