Borradores de Economia
Number:
167
Published:
Classification JEL:
E31
Keywords:
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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Diego Fernando Cuesta-Mora, Fredy Alejandro Gamboa-Estrada, Camilo Eduardo Sánchez-Quinto
José Vicente Romero-Chamorro, Hernando Vargas-Herrera
Juan Camilo Medellín-Martínez, Sergio Restrepo Ángel
This paper studies the fiscal revenues of Cartagena de Indias, the main port of the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the colonial period and one of the principal military bastions of Spain in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century.1 The period analyzed extends from 1751 to 1810.