Growing in the Shadow of an Empire. How Spanish Colonialism Affected Economic Development in Europe and in the World (XVI -XVIII cc.)

This conference collection seeks to answer a very basic question: did the countries under Spanish dominion experience a particular developmental course that may have led them to a common, yet distinct, type of modernization? In order to answer this question, the authors examine the interplay between institutional and social frameworks on the one hand, and economic patterns on the other.