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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

Eating, drinking, paying. The price of food in Montevideo in the late colonial period

  • Author(s): Moraes, María Inés
  • Journal: Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

DT 07/20 - Politics as a determinant of primary school provision. The case of Uruguay, 1914-1954

  • Author(s): Azar, Paola
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

Ganadería en el mundo americano: algunas reflexiones sobre tecnología, consumo e intercambio.

  • Author(s): Lopes, María-Aparecida - Moraes, María Inés - Wilcox, Robert
  • Journal: Mundo Agrario
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

DT 03/20 - Consumo de alimentos en Uruguay (1900-1970): Metodología y fuentes para la elaboración de series de consumo aparente

  • Author(s): Presa, Maximiliano - Román, Carolina
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

Patterns of Regional Income Distribution in Uruguay (1872–2012): A Story of Agglomeration, Natural Resources and Public Policies

  • Author(s): Rodríguez Miranda, Adrián - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history, Development
  • Year: 2020

Garavaglia y el otro lado del Río de la Plata

  • Author(s): Moraes, María Inés - Osório, Helen
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

Time and Space Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective

  • Author(s): Tirado, Daniel - Badia-Miró, Marc - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2020

México y Uruguay ante la Gran Recesión

  • Author(s): Hernández Veleros, Zeus Salvador - Velázquez Orihuela, Daniel - Willebald, Henry
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2021

Inequality in Pre-Income Survey Times: A Methodological Proposal

  • Author(s): Lezama, Guillermo - Willebald, Henry
  • Journal: The review of income and wealth
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2019

The Dynamics of Latin American Agricultural Production Growth, 1950–2008

  • Author(s): Willebald, Henry - Martín-Retortillo, Miguel - Pinilla, Vicente - Velazco, Jackeline
  • Journal: Journal of Latin American Studies
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2019

La mecanización del agro en Uruguay 1908-2010, aplicación de un modelo logístico para medir su trayectoria

  • Author(s): Castro, Pablo
  • Journal: Revista Uruguaya de Historia Económica
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2018

Growth and Regional Disparities in South America, 1890–1960

  • Author(s): Badia-Miró, Marc - Nicolini, Esteban - Willebald, Henry
  • Journal: Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  • Research group: Economic history
  • Year: 2018
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    • 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
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    • Peer-reviewed publications
    • Databases
    • IECON 70 years
  • Projects
  • Diffusion
    • IECON in the media
    • Economics Department Blog
    • Events