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OPTIMISTIC BUT FLAWED? A REPLY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2015

Leticia Arroyo Abad  and
Jan Luiten Van Zanden
Leticia Arroyo Abad
Affiliation:
Middlebury College, USA
Jan Luiten Van Zanden
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
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Abstract

Replying to Rafael Dobado-González’s article on living standards in Spanish America during the colonial period, we discuss the methodology and evidence published in Arroyo Abad, Davis, and van Zanden (2012).

Resumen

En respuesta al artículo de Rafael Dobado-González sobre niveles de vida en Hispanoamérica durante el periodo colonial, discutimos la metodología y la evidencia publicadas en Arroyo Abad, Davis, and van Zanden (2012).

Keywords

economic historymacroeconomics and monetary economics/growth and fluctuationsLatin America/CaribbeanN16N36I32historia económicasalarios realesestándares de vidaLatinoamérica

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Type
Panorama and Debate
Information
Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 77 - 82
Copyright
© Instituto Figuerola, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2015 

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Footnotes

a

Department of Economics, Middlebury College, 502a Warner Hall, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA. larroyoabad@middlebury.edu

b

Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Drift 6, 3512 Utrecht, The Netherlands. j.l.vanzanden@uu.nl

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