Warner’s article describes in detail the harsh economic conditions and powerful social restrictions women’s lives rural Spain. She notes that marriage rites of Spanish Church describe women as property their husbands. The ends with a tribute to fighting Civil War for Republicanism against tyranny fascism.

A model of group decision-making is studied, in which one of two alternatives must be chosen. While group members differ in their valuations of the alternatives, everybody prefers some alternative to disagreement. Our model is distinguished by three features: private information regarding valuations, varying intensities in the preference for one outcome over the other, and the option to declare...

French price controls and rationing after the Second World War sparked opposition from a broad range of economic actors – farmers, shopkeepers, manufacturers consumers. Towns rang their church bells to mobilise residents against controllers, whom they attacked with verbal abuse physical violence. They associated controllers Vichy collaboration Nazis, rejected as ‘economic tyranny’. Implicitly, ...