Carles Manera Carles Manera has a PhD in history and one in economics. He has been awarded several prizes for his research, including the Prize of Economics in Catalonia (2003). He was vice-chancellor of the University of the Balearic Islands from 1996 to 003). Currently, he is director of the research group on economic history and the researcher in charge of the project "Economic History of Mass Tourism in Spain, 1940-2000: the Balearic Islands and the Mediterranean Contrasts," financed by the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain. Read More Read Less