DT 18/21 - Wealth inequality in colonial Hispanic-America: Montevideo in the late 18th century
- Research group: Economic history
- Year: 2021
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).
- 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.