El perfil económico de la elite de Buenos Aires en las décadas centrales del siglo XIX

Roy Hora

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2006, vol. 24, issue 2, 297-332

Abstract: It has often been argued that large landowners formed the core of the Buenos Aires' economic elite during the first half of the nineteenth century. According to this interpretation, the crisis of independence forced the colonial wealthiest capitalists to move from commerce to ranching, which soon emerged as the elite's major source of income. The evidence produced in this article suggests that this interpretation requires revision. Analysis of sucesiones (probate records) for a sample of fifty of Buenos Aires' largest capitalists of the central decades of the XIXth century indicates that, rather than concentrating on rural production, wealthy porteños sought to diversify their assets. This article suggests that this pattern on investment emerged as a result of businessmen's attempts to cope with economic and political instability.

Date: 2006
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