The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) presents a seminar entitled, "Nature or Nurture? Factors of Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Approach," with Gabriel Tortella. 

Gabriel Tortella is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize in 1994, and has been President of the International Economic History Association, the Spanish Economic History Association, and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History (Frankfurt). He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (London) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). Among his many publications, recent books include La Democracia ayer y hoy (Gadir, 2008), Los orígenes del siglo XXI (Gadir, 2005), The Development of Modern Spain (Harvard, 2000) and, with R. Sylla and R. Tilly, The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization (Cambridge, 1999).