Information and Decision Making: The Logic of Spanish Mining Administration, 1675–1700

Peter Paul Marckhgott-Sanabria
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Peter Paul Marckhgott-Sanabria: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Chapter Chapter 8 in Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic, 2019, pp 185-208 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the late seventeenth century, the Consejo de Hacienda, the central administrative institution charged with governing the Spanish public mining sector, strived to gain extensive information on mining-related topics. The knowledge base created in this way was not a product of an illustrated, merely encyclopaedic interest, nor expression of a supposed “monarchy of paper”, where copious amounts of reports on any conceivable topic were produced to little effect. This chapter will show (1) that such a knowledge base was crucial in enabling a closer control over publicly owned mines as demanded by the monarch Charles II, and (2) that the Consejo de Hacienda disposed of an array of complementary instruments for acquiring mining-related knowledge.

Keywords: Mining; Public administration; Seventeenth century; Spanish empire; Mercury; Reports; Fiscal administration; Consejo de Hacienda; Almadén; Guadalcanal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23894-0_8

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