Person: Ramos Gorostiza, José Luis
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First Name
José Luis
Last Name
Ramos Gorostiza
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Department
Economía Aplicada, Estructura e Historia
Area
Historia e Instituciones Económicas
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Item The debate over the enslavement of Indians and Africans in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish empire(A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought, 2020) Perdices Blas, Luis; Ramos Gorostiza, José Luis; Tellkamp, JörgEl objeto de este capítulo es el estudio de las dos etapas en las que se desarrolló el debate sobre la esclavitud en el Imperio español durante los siglos XVI y XVII, debate en el que la distinción aristotélica entre esclavitud natural y legal desempeñó un papel principal. En la primera etapa se discutió sobre la esclavitud de los indios, y en dicha discusión participaron tanto el maestro de la Escuela de Salamanca Francisco de Vitoria y sus discípulos, como el activista Bartolomé de las Casas y el cronista y erudito Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, que mantuvieron una intensa polémica fuera de las aulas universitarias. En la segunda etapa, Domingo de Soto, Tomás de Mercado, Bartolomé Frías de Albornoz, Francisco García y Luis de Molina, entre otros, discutieron sobre la trata de esclavos africanos. En ninguna de estas dos etapas los arbitristas prestaron atención alguna a la esclavitud.Item Slavery and the slave trade in Spanish economic thought, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries(History of Economic Ideas, 2015) Perdices de Blas, Luis; Ramos Gorostiza, José LuisBetween the sixteenth century and the eighteenth slavery acquired an undoubted economic importance in the Spanish Empire, both because of the growing weight of slave labor in the New World and owing to the political, economic and administrative relevance of successive asientos. However, the attention paid to the issues of slavery and the slave trade in Spanish economic literature was decreasing: from having a place in scholastic texts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to becoming something completely marginal for the economists of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. The aim of this article is to highlight this paradox by analyzing the few texts of scholastic theologians, arbitristas and economists of the Enlightenment that addressed slavery and the slave trade. The question is interesting, since in these three centuries the Spanish economic debates reached a good level, as reflected in the translations into other European languages of numerous Spanish economic works.Item 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 LuisThis 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.Item Rediscovering America: Political economy of Spanish colonies according to the explorers Juan-Ulloa, Malaspina and Humboldt(Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2016) Perdices de Blas, Luis; Ramos Gorostiza, José LuisTwo scientists and sailors from the Spanish Navy, Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, the Italian sailor and explorer Alessandro Malaspina, and the German sage Alexander von Humboldt were the main actors in three great voyages to Spanish America between the second-third of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. This enabled them to provide three first hand «photographs» of the state of the Spanish empire in America at three different moments in time: approximately before, during and after the implementation of colonial reforms designed in the reigns of Ferdinand VI and Charles III. This work aims, in the first place, to compare the socio-economic views of Spanish America deriving from the three expeditions, highlighting similarities and differences. Second, this work aims to connect the analysis of the weaknesses of the politico-institutional organisation of Spanish colonies, which the four travellers did at first hand, with the present debate on the role of colonial institutions in long-term economic development.