Introduction

Gabriel Tortella and José Luis García Ruiz

Chapter 1 in Spanish Money and Banking, 2013, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The history of the Spanish banking and monetary system shows some distinctive traits, which make its study interesting. In the first place, it is a long history, and its evolution shows not a steady progression, but an alternation of booms and busts which somehow follow the ups and downs of the Spanish economy and politics. Other distinctive traits are the following:

Keywords: Precious Metal; Seventeenth Century; Money Supply; Distinctive Trait; Early Modern Period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137317131_1

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