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Perdices Blas, Luis

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Luis
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Perdices Blas
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/74879
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
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Economía Aplicada, Estructura e Historia
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Historia e Instituciones Económicas
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    Economy, Reform and Utopia in Omníbona, The Capital of the Kingdom of Truth (c. 1540)
    (History of Economic Ideas, 2019) Perdices Blas, Luis; Ramos Gorostiza, José Luis
    This paper analyzes the socioeconomic proposals set out in the anonymous 16th-century Spanish utopia known as Omníbona, the Capital of the Kingdom of Truth (c. 1540). These proposals specifically address reforms to the institutional framework that defines how the economic world works in that kingdom. They affect both the new and large public sector (State functions and public revenue), and the private sector (market regulation). Special emphasis is placed on formal institutions, but the importance of other informal ones, such as the role played by Christian moral principles, is not ignored. Additionally, this work examines the relationship between the aforementioned reforms suggested in Omníbona and those included in other contemporary Spanish works by notable scholastics, arbitristas, humanists, social reformers, and political treatise writers. In particular, this relationship revolves round three specific matters: the possibility of enslaving the populations of the newly-conquered territories, charity and the eradication of idleness, and the system of fixed prices.