Publication: Los juros de eclesiásticos. Participación de los conventos andaluces en la Deuda Pública Castellana
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1992
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Alianza Editorial : Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (España)
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Durante los siglos XVI y XVII en la Iglesia española predominó una mentalidad de carácter marcadamente rentista. Sus inversiones iban dirigidas a la adquisición de propiedades inmobiliarias, para ser cedidas en arrendamiento, o a la concesión de créditos, tanto privados (censos consignativos) como públicos (juros) A lo largo del siglo XVII, las instituciones eclesiásticas terminaron por convertirse en las principales acaparadoras de títulos de deuda pública. Los privilegios concedidos por la Corona permitieron a los eclesiásticos situarse en una posición ventajosa a la hora de adquirir nuevos títulos mediante operaciones especulativas que rozaban lo fraudulento. Sin embargo, la quiebra de la monarquía española acabó por afectar también a la Iglesia, situando algunas instituciones en graves dificultades financieras.
A strongly rentier mentality prevailed in the Spanish Catholic church during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Investments were applied to the acquisition of real estate properties to be rented for long periods of time or used to gram credits, either private ones (censos consignativos) or public credits (juros). Church institutions finally became during the XVIIth century the main monopolisers of public debt bonds. The advantages granted by the Crown allowed the clergy a propitious position for the acquisition of new bonds by means of speculative operations that were nearly fraudulent. However, the bankruptcy of the Spanish monarchy eventually affected the Church itself, and it placed some institutions in a difficult financial position.
A strongly rentier mentality prevailed in the Spanish Catholic church during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Investments were applied to the acquisition of real estate properties to be rented for long periods of time or used to gram credits, either private ones (censos consignativos) or public credits (juros). Church institutions finally became during the XVIIth century the main monopolisers of public debt bonds. The advantages granted by the Crown allowed the clergy a propitious position for the acquisition of new bonds by means of speculative operations that were nearly fraudulent. However, the bankruptcy of the Spanish monarchy eventually affected the Church itself, and it placed some institutions in a difficult financial position.
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Revista de Historia Económica Año X Otoño 1992 n. 3 pp. 433--450