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Consumo de energía y subsistencia en sociedades preindustriales. Mejorando el ratio de bienestar

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  • Martín Garrido-Lepe

    (Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Abstract

El consumo energético de los hogares ha sido imprescindible en la elaboración de las canastas de consumo empleadas para analizar la historia del bienestar a nivel mundial. Las más importantes de tales canastas fueron propuestas por Robert Allen, y han sido utilizadas en numerosas investigaciones para analizar el bienestar en diversas regiones y períodos. Pese a ser aportes significativos en nuestra comprensión histórica, existen al menos dos aspectos en los que estas investigaciones podrían mejorar, y que esta investigación propone corregir. Por un lado, han asumido un consumo de combustible por persona que resulta insuficiente para la subsistencia; y por otro, han comparado las canastas de consumo sin tener en cuenta las diferentes necesidades energéticas derivadas de las características climáticas de cada localidad. Empleando una metodología que considera tales diferencias, esta investigación ofrece nuevas estimaciones de consumo energético en los hogares que alteran los resultados de las investigaciones en historia del bienestar.

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  • Martín Garrido-Lepe, 2024. "Consumo de energía y subsistencia en sociedades preindustriales. Mejorando el ratio de bienestar," UHE Working papers 2024_01, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Unitat d'Història Econòmica.
    • Handle: RePEc:aub:uhewps:2024_01
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    Keywords

    Consumo Energético; Ratio de bienestar; Salarios reales; Bienestar;
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    JEL classification:

    • N30 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N70 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General

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