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The Economic History of China
  • From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
  • Richard von Glahn
  • Published online:
    05 March 2016
    Print publication:
    07 March 2016
  • China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.

The Federal Reserve's Role in the Global Economy
  • A Historical Perspective
  • Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Mark A. Wynne
  • Published online:
    05 March 2016
    Print publication:
    01 April 2016
  • The importance of international considerations in the US Federal Reserve System's deliberations has become more and more important over time as global financial crises and events create ever stronger repercussions in the US economy. This book critically evaluates the role of the Federal Reserve System as a player in the international monetary system over the past one hundred years, starting with its initial responsibility under the gold standard and looking ahead to the challenges it will face in the twenty-first century under the fiat standard. The book is based on a conference of the same name held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in September 2014, as part of the Federal Reserve System's centennial, and contributors include many of the most highly regarded financial historians and policymakers.

  • PHILIP II AGAINST THE CORTES AND THE CREDIT FREEZE OF 1575-1577*

  • Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Christophe Chamley
  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / December 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 March 2016, pp. 351-382
    Print publication:
    December 2016

  • Numerous archival documents show how the suspension of payments by Philip II, in September 1575, on the contracts with Genoese bankers (asientos) induced a freeze of the domestic credit market in Castile through the bankers’ intermediation for asientos and the credit interconnections. Commercial fairs stopped, banks failed and trade suffered while the king granted legal protection to the Genoese bankers. The evidence strikingly confirms that by his strategy, Philip II was able to remove the de facto ceiling on the domestic debt (juros) imposed by the fixed revenue commitment of the Castilian cities in the Cortes. The agreement with the bankers was signed in December 1577 immediately after the cities had agreed to the doubling of their commitment.

  • RHE volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / March 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 March 2016, pp. b1-b2
    Print publication:
    March 2016
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  • RHE volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / March 2016
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    02 March 2016, pp. f1-f4
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    March 2016
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  • NOTA DE LOS EDITORES

  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / March 2016
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    02 March 2016, pp. 6-10
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    March 2016
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  • EDITORIAL NOTE

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    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / March 2016
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    02 March 2016, pp. 3-5
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    March 2016
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  • LA SEDA CHINA EN NUEVA ESPAÑA A PRINCIPIOS DEL SIGLO XVII. UNA MIRADA IMPERIAL EN EL MEMORIAL DE HORACIO LEVANTO*

  • Mariano Bonialian
  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 35 / Issue 1 / March 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 February 2016, pp. 147-171
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    March 2017
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  • This article analyzes the effects generated by the import and consumption of madeja silk from China in the commercial and productive level of Mexico and Spain between 1580 and 1620. The paper questions the traditional image of an Asian trade defined by expensive, manufactured goods, oriented to an elite consumption. Considering the Memorial of Horacio Levanto (1620) and in the context of modern globalization, we propose the hypothesis that Asian trade responded to mass consumption, influencing productive structures in New Spain and Spain herself. Madeja silk from China was one of the main semi-processed goods imported via Acapulco which, as raw material, promoted the development of the Novohispanic textile industry.

  • 1 - Globalizing ideologies

  • Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade
    Published online:
    05 February 2016
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    09 February 2016, pp 1-32
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