De la modernidad a la reacción. Josep Maria Tallada, economía y política (1884-1946).

Abstract

This paper focuses the figure of Josep Maria Tallada i Paulí, a Catalan economist from the first half of the 20th century. The option to reconstruct the trajectory of Tallada has to do with two main reasons. Firstly, because he presents the profile of an intellectual lent to politics, or rather of a political-intellectual actor: tracing his trajectory according to his contextualization, provides the possibility of deepening the action of a sector that was key in the consolidation of the hegemony of the Regionalist League before the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, being Tallada a prominent actor in the construction of the intellectual networks and competencies that supported the Lliga project. Secondly, his extended career, firmly rooted in rationalist and modernizing approaches, allows us to deepen the processes and evolutions that led him - like other regionalist intellectuals - to adhere to the Franco dictatorship after the  Spanish Civil War.