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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

Los servicios en Uruguay. Liderando la estructura productiva desde el siglo XIX

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

Visions of Inequality. From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War, de Branko Milanovic

  • Journal: Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

Espacios económicos, instituciones y mercados antes de la creación del Estado Oriental

  • Author(s): Moraes, María Inés
  • Research group: Economic history

Las finanzas públicas en los siglos XX y XXI

  • Author(s): Azar, Paola - Bertoni, Reto - García Repetto, Ulises
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

Historia económica del sector agrario 1870-2019

  • Author(s): Álvarez, Jorge - Castro, Pablo - Rey, María José
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

La banca en el Uruguay: 1857-2015

  • Author(s): Díaz, Gastón - Moreira, Cecilia
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

Society matters: A post-Keynesian approach to economic development

  • Author(s): Marmissolle, Pablo
  • Journal: PSL Quarterly Review
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

DT 09 - 24 The structural and historical relevance of services in Uruguay. A long run approach (1870-2020)

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

Transferencias de ingresos entre activida-des productivas en Uruguay (1955-2022). Estabilidad, cambio y creciente dispersión.

  • Author(s): Román, Carolina - Willebald, Henry
  • Journal: Cuadernos de Economía
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2024

DT 24 - 23 Functional income distribution in Uruguay (1870 – 1908). A methodological note

  • Author(s): Willebald, Henry - Marmissolle, Pablo
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

DT 23 - 23 Condiciones de salud en el territorio: una aproximación de largo plazo desde las causas de mortalidad en Uruguay

  • Author(s): Azar, Paola - Román, Carolina
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

Assessing potential improvement in education: Unravelling pupils' and schools’ inefficiencies using a multi-level metafrontier approach

  • Author(s): Azar, Paola - Sicilia, Gabriela
  • Journal: Economic Modelling
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023
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  • About
    • Organization and objectives
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    • 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