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Money and Banking in the Twilight of Empire

In: Spanish Money and Banking

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  • Gabriel Tortella
  • José Luis García Ruiz

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The eighteenth century was one of slow recovery for the Spanish economy as a whole, thanks largely to internal peace, to legal and administrative modernization by the Bourbon kings, and especially thanks to the gradual opening of the Spanish Americas to trade with the metropolis, which had been subject to tight restrictions before. In 1778 transatlantic trade with Spanish America was open for the most important ports on both shores of the Atlantic and for a series of Pacific harbours also. The so-called Free Commerce Decree of 1778 was followed by a brief trade boom, but politics put an end to this hopeful development.

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  • Gabriel Tortella & José Luis García Ruiz, 2013. "Money and Banking in the Twilight of Empire," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, in: Spanish Money and Banking, chapter 2, pages 14-25, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pmschp:978-1-137-31713-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137317131_2
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