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Papers by Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Cliometrica, May 24, 2024
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 1, 2008
Social Science Research Network, Oct 1, 2020
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2014
"This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an a... more "This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two thirds of its maximum possible. Its evolution has been, however, far from linear. After a substantial improvement since mid-nineteenth century, World War I brought a major setback. The post-war recovery up to 1929 was followed by a dramatic decline in the 1930s and significant progress took place during the Golden Age but fell short from the pre-World War I peak. A steady expansion since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension of economic freedom exhibited a distinctive trend and its contribution to the aggregate index varied over time. Nonetheless, improved property rights provided the main contribution to the long-run advancement of economic liberty."
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Sep 1, 2003
The Economic History Review, Aug 1, 2009
Economics and Human Biology, 2023
Revista de Economia, 1999
Este artigo é uma revisão do crescente volume de publicações sobre os custos e benefícios, para a... more Este artigo é uma revisão do crescente volume de publicações sobre os custos e benefícios, para as economias européias, de cinco séculos de envolvimento com impérios ultramarinos. Para isso, é dada atenção à tradição do debate político e ao discurso histórico relativos às despesas e retornos do imperialismo formal. Este artigo se concentra nos custos e benefícios dos impérios para o crescimento de longo prazo de algumas economias européias durante o período de 1815-1914. Também são analisados os períodos subseqüentes de reintegração e descolonização, inaugurada pelas duas guerras mundiais no século XX. This paper surveys a growing volume of publications with a view to assessing the costs and benefits of five centuries of European involvement with empires overseas. Therefore, attention is paid to the tradition of political debate and to the historical discourse regarding outlays and returns flowing from formal imperialism. The paper focuses on the costs and benefits of empire...
Explorations in Economic History, Oct 1, 2022
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 4, 2010
Alianza Editorial eBooks, 1993
ABSTRACT
Información comercial española, Nov 14, 2019
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2020
Cliometrica, May 24, 2024
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 1, 2008
Social Science Research Network, Oct 1, 2020
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2014
"This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an a... more "This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two thirds of its maximum possible. Its evolution has been, however, far from linear. After a substantial improvement since mid-nineteenth century, World War I brought a major setback. The post-war recovery up to 1929 was followed by a dramatic decline in the 1930s and significant progress took place during the Golden Age but fell short from the pre-World War I peak. A steady expansion since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension of economic freedom exhibited a distinctive trend and its contribution to the aggregate index varied over time. Nonetheless, improved property rights provided the main contribution to the long-run advancement of economic liberty."
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Sep 1, 2003
The Economic History Review, Aug 1, 2009
Economics and Human Biology, 2023
Revista de Economia, 1999
Este artigo é uma revisão do crescente volume de publicações sobre os custos e benefícios, para a... more Este artigo é uma revisão do crescente volume de publicações sobre os custos e benefícios, para as economias européias, de cinco séculos de envolvimento com impérios ultramarinos. Para isso, é dada atenção à tradição do debate político e ao discurso histórico relativos às despesas e retornos do imperialismo formal. Este artigo se concentra nos custos e benefícios dos impérios para o crescimento de longo prazo de algumas economias européias durante o período de 1815-1914. Também são analisados os períodos subseqüentes de reintegração e descolonização, inaugurada pelas duas guerras mundiais no século XX. This paper surveys a growing volume of publications with a view to assessing the costs and benefits of five centuries of European involvement with empires overseas. Therefore, attention is paid to the tradition of political debate and to the historical discourse regarding outlays and returns flowing from formal imperialism. The paper focuses on the costs and benefits of empire...
Explorations in Economic History, Oct 1, 2022
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 4, 2010
Alianza Editorial eBooks, 1993
ABSTRACT
Información comercial española, Nov 14, 2019
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2020
13 ensayos de reputados especialistas de América Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos
Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research 16 (2020) 35-48, 2020
The Black Death was the most devastating demographic shock in recorded human history. However, th... more The Black Death was the most devastating demographic shock in recorded human history. However, the effects in the European population were highly asymmetrical as were its economic consequences. This paper surveys the short and long run economic effects of the plague in Spain in European perspective. While the demographic impact in Spain was moderate compared to the European average, the economic effects were more severe and incomes per head fell sharply. This was a consequence of the existence of a frontier economy in Spain charac-terised by a relative scarcity of labour and a fragile equilibrium between factors of production. Unlike most of Europe, in Spain the Black Death increased inequality as the remuneration of labour decreased more rapidly than proprietors' gains. In the long term the Plague reinforced the frontier economy status. © 2020 Asociación Española de Historia Económica JEL classification: I10 N13 N33 O52 Keywords Black Death Frontier economy Malthusian economy Spain Los efectos económicos de la peste negra: España en perspectiva europea R E S U M E N Códigos JEL: I10 N13 N33 O52 Palabras clave: Peste negra Economía de frontera Economía Malthusiana España La peste fue el shock demográfico más devastador registrado en la historia de la humanidad. Sin embargo, los efectos en la población europea y en sus economías fueron asimétricos. Este trabajo estudia los efectos econó-micos de la peste en España en el corto y largo plazo en perspectiva europea. Mientras que el impacto demo-gráfico en España fue moderado comparado con la media europea, los efectos económicos fueron más severos y el ingreso per cápita descendió abruptamente. Esto se debió a la existencia de una economía de frontera en España caracterizada por la escasez de trabajo y un frágil equilibrio entre los factores de producción. Al contra-rio que en la mayoría de Europa, en España la peste incremento la desigualdad al descender la remuneración del trabajo más rápidamente que las ganancias de los propietarios. En el largo plazo la peste reforzó el estatus de economía de frontera.