Publication: La imagen económica de la España de Carlos III: Joseph Townsend, Alexander Jardine y los economistas españoles
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2006
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Laureano Figuerola: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
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De entre todos los viajeros británicos que visitaron España en el siglo XVIII, Alexander Jardine y Joseph Townsend fueron los que realizaron los itinerarios más completos y los que más atención prestaron al análisis de la realidad socioeconómica. En su identificación de los problemas económicos específicos coinciden esencialmente con los ilustrados españoles, y particularmente con Campomanes, cuya obra toman como referente básico. Sin embargo, a la hora de enjuiciar la situación económica general, el sistema político y ciertas actitudes gubernamentales basadas aún en planteamientos mercantilistas, surgen discrepancias entre los viajeros y los ilustrados. El gradualismo reformista de estos últimos choca entonces con los planteamientos de transformación profunda del orden político y social que hacían los viajeros. Asimismo, el optimismo de los ilustrados respecto a las posibilidades de crecimiento de la economía española contrastaba con la negativa visión global de los viajeros.
Among the British travellers who travelled across Spain in the eighteenth century, Alexander Jardine and Joseph Townsend were those whose itineraries were the most complete and who paid more attention to socioeconomic analysis. Their identification of the specific economic problems coincides broadly with those of Spanish economists, and particularly with those of Campomanes, whose work is considered by them as a basic point of reference. However, there are discrepancies between the travellers and Spanish economists in respect to the general economic situation, the political system and certain government attitudes still based on a mercantilist approach. The reformist gradualism of Spanish economists clashed then with the proposals of the more profound socioeconomic reforms recommended by our travellers. Moreover, the optimism of Spanish economists about growth possibilities of the Spanish economy faced up to the negative overall view of British travellers.
Among the British travellers who travelled across Spain in the eighteenth century, Alexander Jardine and Joseph Townsend were those whose itineraries were the most complete and who paid more attention to socioeconomic analysis. Their identification of the specific economic problems coincides broadly with those of Spanish economists, and particularly with those of Campomanes, whose work is considered by them as a basic point of reference. However, there are discrepancies between the travellers and Spanish economists in respect to the general economic situation, the political system and certain government attitudes still based on a mercantilist approach. The reformist gradualism of Spanish economists clashed then with the proposals of the more profound socioeconomic reforms recommended by our travellers. Moreover, the optimism of Spanish economists about growth possibilities of the Spanish economy faced up to the negative overall view of British travellers.
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Historia del pensamiento económico, España, siglo XVIII, Ilustración, Libros de viajes, History of economic thought, Spain, 18th century, Enlightenment, Travel books, Eighteenth Century
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Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Año XXIV, primavera 2006, n. 1, pp. 139-173