This essay deals with some basic economic variables: prices, coinage and economic activity level. The data have been taken from published and well known sources and developed as chronological series. So, analyzing trends and tluctuations, we got a suitable picture of Peru viceroyalty’s economy...

This paper deals with Viceroy Toledo’s governing plan and the modern concepts of development. It is a review of Viceroy Toledo’s plan genesis from 1568’s Junta Magna, the Toledo’s trip over the Andes and the final establishment of his two main economic policy pillars: the mita and the...

This paper aims to discuss the so-called Guano era from a financial analysis perspective. The target is set on the “Dreyfus contractâ€, as far as it meant a “turning point†in Peruvian’s fiscal policy. The sad end of such story was the Pacific’s war. As a...

This essay aim to set new hypothesis for Latin American’s development problem; the analysis is focused from “the encounter of two worlds” to the present. The general and main hypothesis is a sort of “clutched” between the “Pre-Columbian System” and the “European System” and...

This paper aims to describe the Independence process as a result of an European fighting between France and England for getting World hegemony. Its analytical framework is supported by a braudelian scheme; longue durée, moyenne durée and court durée. As a result, the Latin American...

This paper aim to discuss about a common terminology misused in Latin American political speech, associated with the models of political economy; the two countries were selected as samples for discussion. In such a way, the quantitative indicators showed are arguments for political, social and...

From quantitative data at the border of Peru’s viceroyalty, this article deals with the meaning of “Colonial pact” and “Corruption” and develops some hypothesis about the Imperial Policy in this area, under Habsbourg’s rule. The quantitative data has been processed using basic...