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Costos y beneficios de una colonia: introducción a la fiscalidad colonial del Estado de Brasil, 1607-1808

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  • Angelo Alves Carrara

    (Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)

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From the standpoint of the State, one of the key elements, if not the most important one in the relations between a mother country and its colonies, is the fiscal system. In the case of the Spanish and Portuguese metropolises, the payment of the costs of the conquest could be covered with profits deriving from precious metals remittances or with monopoly commerce with their colonies. For metropolises with many conquered territories, imperial financial arithmetic was of a special kind: what mattered at the end of the day was not only the individual yield of each colony, but the income and expenses balance as a whole. What might be lost in one colony, would be retrieved in another. Under this perspective, this study falls within the field of what we can call the historiography of the exchequer of the Portuguese empire. KEY Classification-JEL: N10, N16, N46

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  • Angelo Alves Carrara, 2010. "Costos y beneficios de una colonia: introducción a la fiscalidad colonial del Estado de Brasil, 1607-1808," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, Asociación Española de Historia Económica, vol. 6(01), pages 13-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:ahe:invest:v:06:y:2010:i:01:p:13-42
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    Keywords

    Fiscal System; Brazil; Old Colonial System;
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    JEL classification:

    • N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N46 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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