This text defends the hypothesis that the specialisation in sugar production from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century led to a persistent decline in the welfare of the poorest Puerto Rican population due to the need to reduce production costs. On the other hand,...

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...

New estimates of cost of living and real wages from 1800 to the Civil War are presented in this article. Both prices and bricklayers’ wages have been obtained from a Palencia’s hospital records. The indexes calculated suggest that the standard of living deteriorated during the central...