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JournalISSN: 0212-6109

Revista De Historia Economica 

Centro de Estudios Constitucionales
About: Revista De Historia Economica is an academic journal published by Centro de Estudios Constitucionales. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Latin Americans & Population. It has an ISSN identifier of 0212-6109. Over the lifetime, 973 publications have been published receiving 8863 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of Iberian and Latin American economic history.


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TL;DR: The authors used a new data base on real wages and relative factor prices for seven Latin American and three Mediterranean regions, the latter being a source of so many of immigrants for the former.
Abstract: By 1914, there were huge economic gaps between the Southern Cone plus Cuba and the rest of Latin America. Can they be explained by the varying ability of these countries to exploit the first great globalization boom after about 1870? Or did the gaps appear much earlier? And what about the gaps between Latin America and the Mediterranean, let alone with industrial leaders like Britain? What role did geographic isolation, globalization and demographic forces play in the process? Conventional GDP estimates are much too coarse to confront these questions. This essay uses a new data base on real wages and relative factor prices for seven Latin American and three Mediterranean regions, the latter being a source of so many of immigrants for the former. These ten regions, plus comparative information from Britain and the United States, form the data base for the paper.

129 citations

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TL;DR: A partir de datos publicado e ineditos, referidos in su mayor parte al centro de la peninsula and en especial a Madrid, se propone the construccion of indices anuales de precios, salarios, and salarios reales entre 1501 and 1991 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A partir de datos publicados e ineditos, referidos en su mayor parte al centro de la peninsula y en especial a Madrid, se propone la construccion de indices anuales de precios, salarios y salarios reales entre 1501 y 1991. Se ofrece una explicacion detallada de la naturaleza de las fuentes y de los procedimientos utilizados en la construccion de los indices, evaluando la bondad de los ajustes introducidos. Las series resultantes delimitan con claridad la evolucion ciclica a medio y largo plazo de precios y salarios en el centro de Espana. Al compararselas con series temporales inglesas, destaca la similitud de tendencias en el conjunto del periodo estudiado.

106 citations

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TL;DR: This article studied the coffee exporting economies of Latin America and found that the different forms that the coffee economy took in the 19th century was critically determined by the legal environment determining access to land, and that different laws resulted from differences in the nature of political competition and the backgrounds of political elites.
Abstract: In recent theories of comparative development, the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet, what explains comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the coffee exporting economies of Latin America. Although homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development, which is conventionally traced to the differential organization of the coffee industry. We show that the different forms that the coffee economy took in the 19th century was critically determined by the legal environment determining access to land, and that different laws resulted from differences in the nature of political competition and the backgrounds of political elites. Our analysis suggests that explanations of institutional differences that stress economic fundamentals can only be part of the story. At least in the economies that we study, while geography, factor endowments and technology are clearly important, their implications for the institutional structure and thus development are conditional on the form that political competition takes in society. For interesting variations in economic outcomes, endowments are not fate.

83 citations

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TL;DR: In particular, the factores sociales, culturales, and socio-economic factors of the interpretación and traduccion of the Principioa de economia politica and fiscal de David Ricardo, publicado in Madrid durante the years 1848, 1849, and 1850 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Los factores sociales y sobre todo los culturales nos permiten explicar las caracteristicas de la interpretacion y traduccion de los Principioa de economia politica y fiscal de David Ricardo, publicados en Madrid durante los anos 1848, 1849 y 1850. Estos factores sociales y culturales son esencialmente el atraso economico, la formacion economica del traductor, el ambiente intelectual de Madrid y la preocupacion por la inestabilidad politica y social. El resultado fue una interpretacion del pensamiento de Ricardo muy diferente del usual en Gran Bretana, y donde el significado de la economia ricardiana se pierde.

72 citations

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TL;DR: The problem of determinar la produccion agraria a nivel nacional, en el siglo XIX, is well-known as mentioned in this paper, bien, bien con datos de los archivos o bien por metodos estadisticos indirectos, that muestre las fluctuaciones a corto plazo and that tenga un nivell de fiabilidad suficientemente alto for ser util.
Abstract: Las dificultades que existian para determinar la produccion agraria a nivel nacional, en el siglo XIX, son bien conocidas. La poca fiabilidad del diezmo en muchas zonas del pais despues de la Guerra de la Independencia, y la falta de un catastro o de buenas informaciones del tamano de la superficie cultivada, hicieron casi imposible la tarea de los economistas y agronomos durante la mayor parte del siglo XIX para calcular cifras razonables de la produccion. Por tanto, sera muy dificil obtener hoy dia un indice, bien con datos de los archivos o bien por metodos estadisticos indirectos, que muestre las fluctuaciones a corto plazo y que tenga un nivel de fiabilidad suficientemente alto para ser util. No obstante, para obtener una aproximacion de las transformaciones de la economia espanola a largo plazo, es necesario saber algo de los ritmos de cambio en el sector agrario. El historiador tiene dos posibilidades: utilizar fuentes como las estimaciones de produccion que se encuentran en el Censo de Frutos y Manufacturas o las de la Junta Consultiva Agronomica (JCA) y Sodila, o recurrir a otros indicadores, como los cambios en la renta per capita o el consumo de alimentos, como aproximaciones.

70 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
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20234
202219
202126
202022
201924
201810