Benefits and Fiscal Costs of Colonialism: American Remittances to Spain, 1760-1814

Marichal, Carlos

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Benefits and Fiscal Costs of Colonialism: American Remittances to Spain, 1760-1814

dc.contributor.author	Marichal, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-14T17:19:23Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-14T17:19:23Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The essay measures the fiscal costs and benefits of colonialism, both for the Spanish American colonies and for Spain, in the period 1760-1814 using new estimates of the annual transfers from the colonies to the metropolitan treasury. The various components of the fiscal benefits for the metropolis are analyzed, including the huge transfer of silver from colonial treasuries and also the estimated value of the large volume of shipments of tobacco leaf from Cuba to the Spanish tobacco monopoly. It is argued that the American contribution to the ordinary income of the Spanish government increased in absolute and relative terms in the period 1790-1810.	en
dc.description.abstract	Se intentan medir los beneficios y costes fiscales de la relación entre las colonias americanas y España en el período de 1760 a 1814 a partir de una serie de nuevas estimaciones de los montos anuales de las remesas fiscales americanas. Se discuten los varios componentes de los beneficios fiscales que recibía la tesorería metropolitana, incluyendo las transferencias en metálico y en especie (tabaco de Cuba). Se argumenta que la contribución americana a los ingresos ordinarios metropolitanos aumentó en términos absolutos y relativos entre 1790 y 1810.	es
dc.format.extent	30
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (Second Series) / Virtual Special Issue / 2020, 30 p.
dc.identifier.issn	0212-6109
dc.identifier.issn	2041-3335 (online)
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/31609
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.dataset	https://doi.org/10.21950/VJ8YLY
dc.relation.isversionof	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/2043
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights	© Instituto Figuerola, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2020
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Economía	es
dc.subject.eciencia	Historia	es
dc.subject.jel	F54
dc.subject.jel	N43
dc.subject.jel	N46
dc.subject.other	Colonialismo	es
dc.subject.other	Beneficios y costes fiscales	es
dc.subject.other	América española	es
dc.subject.other	España	es
dc.subject.other	Colonialism	en
dc.subject.other	Fiscal costs and benefits	en
dc.subject.other	Spanish America	en
dc.subject.other	Spain	en
dc.title	Benefits and Fiscal Costs of Colonialism: American Remittances to Spain, 1760-1814	en
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