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...