The Sexenio Absolutista (1814–1820): The Encounter with Smith and Say

Jesús Astigarraga (), Javier Usoz () and Juan Zabalza ()
Additional contact information
Jesús Astigarraga: University of Zaragoza
Javier Usoz: University of Zaragoza
Juan Zabalza: University of Alicante

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Economic Legacy of José Joaquín de Mora, 2024, pp 19-37 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyses Mora’s youth and early training years. He was barely thirty years old when his career in journalism began during the 1810s. His first foray into journalism during the Sexenio Absolutista (1813–1820) was the Crónica científica y literaria (1817–1820). The periodical was a clear example of Mora’s ability to make the most of the few remaining openings for civil initiatives in Madrid under the absolutism regime. The Crónica was devoted to “the sciences and literature”, but also launched Mora’s career as a disseminator of political economy. He used brief anonymous notes, bibliographical information and especially reviews to promote this science. His ideological touchstone was neither Campomanes, Jovellanos nor other late Spanish Enlightenment writers, who were hardly mentioned in the Crónica, but Anglo-French classical economics, to which Mora would remain faithful throughout his life. Smith and Say were the two major sources of his economic thought in those years.

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-49446-8_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783031494468

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49446-8_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().