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

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  • Julio Djenderedjian

    (Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)

  • Juan Luis Martirén

    (Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)

  • María Inés Moraes

    (Instituto de Economía/Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Abstract

Este artículo examina el impacto de los turbulentos acontecimientos que jalonaron la Era de la Revoluciones sobre los precios al consumo y en el poder adquisitivo de los salarios urbanos poco cualificados en Buenos Aires y Montevideo, dos ciudades del Río de la Plata cuyas economías estaban en estrecho contacto con los mercados atlánticos. Presenta datos comparativos sobre el costo de vida y las ratios de bienestar elaborados a partir de fuentes primarias y secundarias para cada ciudad. Los principales hallazgos son que (a) Buenos Aires y Montevideo experimentaron fluctuaciones de precios similares a lo largo del período, (b) atravesaron un período inflacionario inusualmente intenso entre 1813 y 1822 como resultado de las “guerras de independencia”, (c) el poder adquisitivo de los trabajadores no calificados, que era superior a los de México, Lima y Bogotá en la misma época y comparable al de ciudades europeas de ingresos medios (Allen et al. 2011), disminuyó ante la presión inflacionaria, y (d) aunque el poder adquisitivo se recuperó después, no logró mantener los niveles iniciales en ambas ciudades rioplatenses. KEY Classification-JEL: N36; N56; N96; I31

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  • Julio Djenderedjian & Juan Luis Martirén & María Inés Moraes, 2023. "Prices and Living Standards during the Age of Revolutions: The Río de la Plata between 1772 and 1830," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, Asociación Española de Historia Económica, vol. 19(02), pages 70-86.
    • Handle: RePEc:ahe:invest:v:19:y:2023:i:02:p:70-86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33231/j.ihe.2023.05.004
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    Keywords

    Precios; Niveles de vida; Economías atlánticas; Río de la Plata;
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    JEL classification:

    • N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N56 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N96 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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