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Economic history

The Economic History Group (HISTECO by its initials in Spanish) is composed by a group of researchers that study Uruguay's economic performance, combining a long-term and comparative perspective with interest in specific periods and events.

The research is organized in several lines and develops long-term research, specific projects, and postgraduate theses.  

Members of the group are part of local and international academic networks; and are members of editorial committees of academic journals (Revista Uruguaya de Historia Económica, Historia Agraria; Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (RHE-JILAEH).

Lines of research

- Banking, credit, and money.

- Growth, distribution, and foreign trade in the First Globalization.

- Living standards from a historical perspective.

- Regional economic performance and economic geography.

- Inequality in Uruguay from a long-term perspective.

- Natural resources, sustainability, and development in the long term.

- Historical National Accounts.

- Innovation and technological change in economic history. Uruguay and the region. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

- History of Economics.

Members

  • Paola Azar (coordinator)
  • Pablo Castro
  • Pablo Marmissolle
  • Pablo Messina
  • María Inés Moraes
  • Cecilia Moreira
  • Maximiliano Presa
  • Rebeca Riella
  • Carolina Román (Coordinator)
  • Carolina Vicario
  • Henry Willebald

Publications (link)

Recent projects and publications

Regímenes de crecimiento de Uruguay en el largo plazo (1870- 2019)

  • Friday, 09 May 2025
  • 11:00 a 12:15
  • Salón 3 - Edificio de Investigación y Posgrados - Lauro Müller 1921

People and Numbers of the Río de la Plata

  • Status: Activo
  • Members of the IECON: Marmissolle, Pablo - Moraes, María Inés - Riella, Rebeca - Vicario, Carolina

Patterns of regional development in Uruguay in a long-term perspective (20th and 21st centuries)

  • Status: Activo
  • Members of the IECON: Centurión, Irene - Dianessi, Marcelo - Marmissolle, Pablo - Presa, Maximiliano - Rodríguez Miranda, Adrián - Willebald, Henry

The structural and historical relevance of services in the Uruguayan economy

  • Status: Inactivo
  • Members of the IECON: Marmissolle, Pablo - Presa, Maximiliano - Román, Carolina - Willebald, Henry

Uruguayan banking system database, 1929-1966

  • Associated group: Economic history

DT 07-25 Agrarian mechanization in the settler economies. The diffusion of tractor in New Zealand and Uruguay in the 20th century

  • Author(s): Castro, Pablo - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2025

DT 06-25 Location of agricultural output and economic geography. Uruguay in the long-run (1870-2008)

  • Author(s): Castro, Pablo - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2025

DT 18 - 24 Distribución y composición de la riqueza en la república temprana. Montevideo 1830-1860

  • Author(s): Vicario, Carolina
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

DT 16 - 24 Rentas de la tierra y regímenes de crecimiento en economías periféricas. Una extensión del modelo postkaleckiano de distribución y crecimiento

  • Author(s): Marmissolle, Pablo
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

Las cuentas nacionales históricas (1870-2023)

  • Author(s): Bértola, Luis - Román, Carolina - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

El desarrollo económico regional de Uruguay (1870-2021)

  • Author(s): Rodríguez Miranda, Adrián - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

El comercio exterior uruguayo en el largo plazo

  • Author(s): Vallejo, Pablo - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024
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Lauro Müller 1921 entre Eduardo Acevedo y Jackson.

Montevideo, Uruguay

Phone (598) 2413 1007

iecon@fcea.edu.uy

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  • Home
  • About
    • Organization and objectives
    • History
    • Seminars
    • IECON Library
  • Members
    • Faculty
    • Secretary and Library
  • Research groups
    • Macroeconomic Analysis and Trade
    • Development
    • Inequality and Poverty
    • Labor Economics
    • Ethics, Justice and Economy
    • Economic history
    • Gender, Economy and Public Policies
    • Other research lines
      • Political Economy and Fiscal Policy
      • Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resources Economics
  • Publications
    • IECON Production
      • Short Run Economic Situation Documents
      • Student Research Documents
      • Working papers
    • Books
      • Book chapters
      • Complete works
    • Peer-reviewed publications
    • Databases
    • IECON 70 years
  • Projects
  • Diffusion
    • IECON in the media
    • Economics Department Blog
    • Events