UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
2nd International Conference on Economic and Social History
"Markets" and Politics
Private interests and public authority (18th-20th centuries)
Volos, 10-12 February 2012
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Abstracts
- Zaharias Moutoukias Fiscal institutions and social networks: the construction of markets and republican order in the Hispanic world, 1790-1830
The way in which historians often perceive the relationships between economics and politics leans on two symmetrical misconceptions: on one side the idea that every decentralized order is a market configuration; on the other, the assumption that markets are non-political constructions. Starting from this counterpoint, this paper analyzes fiscal debates and the answers to tax problems during a period of war and revolution, as a way to explore how political and economic actors interact within social networks and the institutional frame of the Hispanic Empire, building the emergence of both a market system and a republican order.
