Between the proletarian microeconomy and the transnational network : La Salada -- Between La Salada and the workshop : communitarian wealth in dispute -- Between servitude and the new popular entrepreneurship : the clandestine textile workshop -- Between the workshop and the villa : a discussion...

The "monetary method" to measure the size of the shadow economy is based on econometric estimates of the demand for currency. These estimates are used to reckon the currency held by economic agents in excess of the amount they need to finance registered transactions. This excess of currency...

This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...