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Los precios en europa durante los siglos XVI y XVII: Estudio comparativo*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2010

Pablo Martin Aceña
Pablo Martin Aceña
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Universidad de Alcalá y Fundación Empresa Pública
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Abstract

The main object of this paper is to present as precise a measure as possible of the growth of prices in Europe between 1500 and 1700. First, I calculate a weighted index of prices for Castilla la Nueva which is consistent with other European regions. This allows me to incorporate in the study one of the areas on which the study of the price revolution has traditionally centered. Second, employing the tools of modern monetary theory, I attempt to offer an ínterpretation of the behavior of prices based on the quantity theory of money. This theory, in my opinion, continues to offer the best explanation of the long-run changes in the absolute level of prices.

Resumen

El objetivo principal de este trabajo ha sido proporcionar una medición lo más precisa posible del crecimiento de los precios en Europa entre 1500 y 1700. En primer lugar, se calcula un índice ponderado de precios para Castilla la Nueva homogéneo con el de otras regiones europeas, y así poder incorporar a nuestro estudio una de las áreas en las que tradicionalmente se ha centrado el examen de la revolución de los precios. A continuación, y empleando los instrumentos que suministra la moderna teoria monetaria, he tratado de ofrecer una interpretación del comportamiento de los precios sustentada en la teoría cuantitativa del dinero que, a mi entender, sigue proporcionando la mejor explicación de los cambios a largo plazo en el nivel absoluto de precios.

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Panoramas de Historia Economica
Information
Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , December 1992 , pp. 359 - 395
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Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1992

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