The presentation and analysis of a cost of living index and of different wage indices for the city of Madrid, covering the period 1680-1800 is the essential aim of this article. The accounts books of several charitable institutions have been the basic source of information for this research. The...

This study examines a facet of institutional change in 19th Century Spain. Empirical analysis of a zone in the Ebro valley confirms that the process of selling commons prior to the 1855 Ley de Desamortización (Disentailment Law) was of great significance. It evaluates the nature of the changes...

The aim of this paper is provisionally review the researches accomplished within the “Revolution of the Consumption” program, that it is attributed to Neil McKendrick. Its starting point is this question: “Did a convulsion on the demand side that explain the British Industrial...

This paper analizes the impact of the globalization of Mediterranean horticultural products (MHP). From 1850 onwards, the Mediterranean countries took advantage of the new opportunities that arose to increase their production and trade in MHP. The Spanish case shows how the high elasticity of...

New estimates of the cost of living and of the wages in Palencia are presented in order to evaluate the effects of the agrarian capitalism in Castillian working class’ real income from 1751 to 1861. I obtained both prices (incluiding rents) and wages (earned by bricklayers and agricultural...

This paper presents preliminary estimates of the contribution of the railway technology to GDP growth in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico before 1914, and compares them with the available figures for two European economies (Britain and Spain). The results of the estimation indicate that the growth...

This work starts from the conceptual and theoretical world developed by Schumpeter, to advance in the study of the financing of innovations, i.e. the relationship between capital and the entrepreneur. It establishes the fundamental proposition that the function of the entrepreneur is susceptible...

In this article a new estimate of the regional urbanization rates in Spain by late 18th century is offered. It is based on the combination of two criteria: population size and employment structure. While the former criterion has a long tradition, the latter is novel. The result of our approach...

In a country with a low endowment of capital resources, like Spain, should be very important to know the regional financial flows to explain the growth at that level. In this work, we try to study the effects of the regional distribution of deposits and credits in the Spanish financial system...