¿Descendió el producto agrario por habitante en la Europa moderna? El caso castellano
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2018
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Este trabajo cuantifica el crecimiento del producto agrario y del producto agrario per cápita en cuatro provincias castellanas entre las últimas décadas del siglo XVI y el tercer cuarto del XVIII. Para ello utiliza la vía del producto y se basa en la documentación decimal generada por las diócesis de Ávila, Burgos, Salamanca y Segovia para el reparto del subsidio y del excusado. Su principal conclusión no corrobora la imagen negativa que ofrece parte de la historiografía reciente sobre la evolución del sector primario castellano en los siglos XVI y XVIII: entre 1588-1592 y 1771-1775, tanto el producto agrario como el producto agrario por habitante, lejos de reducirse, crecieron en la región estudiada.
This work quantifies the growth of agricultural product and per capita agricultural product in four provinces of Castile between the late sixteenth century and the third quarter of the eighteenth century. For this purpose we have resourced to tithe documentation generated by the dioceses of Avila, Burgos, Salamanca and Segovia for the distribution of the subsidio and the excusado. Our most noticeable conclusion is that the negative image shown by some of the recent literature on the evolution of the primary sector in Castile in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is at odds with the evidence. Between 1588-1592 and 1771-1775, both the agricultural product and per capita agricultural product, far from declining, grew in the aforementioned region.
This work quantifies the growth of agricultural product and per capita agricultural product in four provinces of Castile between the late sixteenth century and the third quarter of the eighteenth century. For this purpose we have resourced to tithe documentation generated by the dioceses of Avila, Burgos, Salamanca and Segovia for the distribution of the subsidio and the excusado. Our most noticeable conclusion is that the negative image shown by some of the recent literature on the evolution of the primary sector in Castile in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is at odds with the evidence. Between 1588-1592 and 1771-1775, both the agricultural product and per capita agricultural product, far from declining, grew in the aforementioned region.