Un análisis de los determinantes del precio de los esclavos hispanoamericanos en el siglo XVIII

This paper analizes die determinants of die price life cycle of a slave, dealing particularly with the impact of human capital, both with respect to skills and health. The paper details die source of the sample —including more than two thousand Spanish American slaves of die 18th century— and discusses its reliability, moving on to a descriptive analysis in the geographic and historical context. Later on it looks at die factors influencing price in several types of economic activity.