Pascual Carrión: política agraria e ingeniería social

Abstract

This article approaches the personal profile and the writings of Pascual Carrión. In the first place it studies the course of Iife of this agricultural engineer between his years as a student of engineering and his death in 1984, revealing the strong relationship between his professional career, his political undertakings and his publications. The classification of the latter according to chronological and thematic criteria is the second step of the article. Thirdly it deals with Carrión's texts on the Spanish agrarian structures, their reform, and with those devoted to the wine sector. The article finishes with a global evaluation of Carrión's works as a source and as a model to approach agrarian and, more generally, political economic problems for contemporary readers.