Did the agrarian product decrease in early modern Europe? The case of Castile

Enrique Llopis (), José Antonio Sebastián (), Vanesa Abarca (), José Ubaldo Bernardos () and Ángel Luis Velasco ()
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Enrique Llopis: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain
José Antonio Sebastián: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain
Vanesa Abarca: Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
José Ubaldo Bernardos: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Ángel Luis Velasco: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain

No 1611, Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) from Asociación Española de Historia Económica

Abstract: This work quantifies the growth of agricultural product and per capita agricultural product in four provinces of Castile between the late sixteenth century and the third quarter of the eighteenth century. For this purpose we have resourced to tithe documentation generated by the dioceses of Avila, Burgos, Salamanca and Segovia for the distribution of the Subsidio and the Excusado. Our most noticeable conclusion is that the negative image shown by some of the recent literature on the evolution of the primary sector in Castile in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is at odds with the evidence. Between 1588-1592 and 1771-1775, both the agricultural product and per capita agricultural product, far from declining, grew in the aforementioned region.

Keywords: Agrarian Product; Tithes; Castile; Europe; Early Modern Period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N13 N53 Q11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2016-04
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