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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

DT 13 - 23 Estimaciones históricas del Valor Agregado Bruto de los servicios en Uruguay, 1870-2020. Nota metodológica.

  • Author(s): Román, Carolina - Díaz, Gastón - Marmissolle, Pablo - Presa, Maximiliano - Willebald, Henry - Romero, Carolina
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

DT 12-23 Distribución funcional del ingreso en Uruguay (1908 – 2019). Metodología de cálculo y construcción de las series

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

Prices and Living Standards during the Age of Revolutions: The Río de la Plata between 1772 and 1830.

  • Author(s): Djenderedjian, Julio - Martirén, Juan - Moraes, María Inés
  • Journal: Investigaciones de Historia Económica
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

Electricity and the role of the state: New Zealand and Uruguay before state-led development (1870-1930)

  • Author(s): Bertoni, Reto - Willebald, Henry
  • Journal: Revista de Historia Industrial
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

El crédito bancario y el fomento industrial: realizaciones del banco estatal durante la industrialización de Uruguay, 1941-1959

  • Author(s): Moreira, Cecilia
  • Journal: Revista de Historia Industrial
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

A 30 años del “País de los vivos”. Una experiencia del uso didáctico del vídeo en el aula

  • Author(s): Willebald, Henry - Siniscalchi, Sabrina
  • Journal: Revista d'Innovació Docent Universitària
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

“¿Es breve el espacio en que no estás?” Desigualdades de género en la participación y producción en historia económica en Uruguay.

  • Author(s): Azar, Paola - Camou, María - Hernández, Melissa - Maubrigades, Silvana - Román, Carolina
  • Journal: América Latina en la Historia Económica
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2023

Changes in food consumption from an agricultural-based economy to industrialisation: Uruguay (1900–70)

  • Author(s): Presa, Maximiliano - Román, Carolina
  • Journal: Rural History
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2022

Producto regional en Uruguay durante la Primera Globalización (1872-1908): desigualad decreciente y convergencia entre regiones

  • Author(s): Castro, Pablo - Willebald, Henry
  • Journal: Investigaciones en Historia Económica
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2022

DT 32/21 - Transferencias de ingresos entre actividades productivas en Uruguay (1955-2019). Estabilidad, cambio y creciente dispersión

  • Author(s): Román, Carolina - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2021

DT 24/21 - Precio de esclavos y esclavas en inventarios post mortem 1760-1825

  • Author(s): Riella, Rebeca
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2021

DT 20/21 - Estimación del Valor Agregado Bruto de la Administración Pública en Uruguay (1870-2017)

  • Author(s): Marmissolle, Pablo - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2021
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  • Home
  • About
    • Organization and objectives
    • History
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  • 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