Alejandra Irigoin
Biographic Data
| ID | 706404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandra Irigoin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Irigoin |
| SIGNATURE | IRIGOIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5395-1537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The instrument of private trade finance in the early modern global trade beyond Europe. Introduction to the collection of articles
This collection of articles focuses on some instruments that served to finance the expansion of private European trade and enabled the European intermediation of global commerce in the early modern period. Because they were distinct from those featured by the financial modernization of northern European economies -i.e. banks, bills and bonds, they have been conventionally assumed as archaic and lacking the efficiency and productivity gains of the…
Foreign monies and exchange risk in pre-modern maritime private trade – (or why did European bills not circulate outside Europe?)
By specifying the currency on which returns were to be repaid, respondentia was a ubiquitous financial instrument to carry international trade. Where multiple currencies existed and silver specie was the preferred money, imported silver performed as foreign currency. Thus, the import of foreign coins created issues for prices, profits, and exchange rates. Eighteenth-century Europeans alternatively used respondentia or bills depending on the monet…
China inside out
This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid-nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific coins. Before the 1850s, money markets became increasingly efficient, as reliance on bills of exchange allow…
Representation Without Taxation, Taxation Without Consent
The essay examines Spain’s colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses the relative burden imposed by colonialism. Constitutional asymmetries between revenue collecting and spending agents constrained de facto governments’ power to tax. Inherent disparities embedded in the colonial fiscal system worsened with vaguely defined representation for subje…
Revisiting the Legacy of Colonialism in Africa, India and Latin America
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Roy Hora, Historia económica de la Argentina en el siglo XIX (Buenos Aires
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A stakeholder empire
This article revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatory colonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources and populations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using eighteenth-century Spanish American treasury accounts, we show that local elites exerted important control not only over revenue collection, as previously argued by the authors, but also over expenditure allocation. The Spanish colonial state developed…
Response to Carlos Marichal and William Summerhill
We thank Carlos Marichal, William Summerhill, and the editors of the HAHR for taking up the debate on how to assess the governance structures under lying Spanish rule in the Iberian Peninsula and the American colonies and (more generally) the current use of institutional explanations in social sciences and history as determinants of differential economic development. Both commentators seem perfectly comfortable with our actual numbers and our att…
Bargaining for Absolutism
Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical "experiment" underpins the core argument of new institutional economic history. This essay argues that such comparisons are based on a misleading characterization of Spanish rule in the metropolis and overseas. For some time, historians of Spain and colonial Spanish Am…
The Spanish Empire and its legacy
The comparative history of the Americas has been used to identify factors determining longterm economic growth. One approach, new institutional economics (NIE), claims that the colonial origins of respective institutional structures explain North American success and Spanish American failure. Another argues that differences in resources encountered by Europeans fostered divergent levels of equality impacting on institutions and growth. This paper…
Problemas y fuentes para el estudio del financiamiento de la formación del Estado en Argentina. Buenos Aires en 1850-1860
.
Bargaining for Absolutism
Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical "experiment" underpins the core argument of new institutional economic history. This essay argues that such comparisons are based on a misleading characterization of Spanish rule in the metropolis and overseas. For some time, historians of Spain and colonial Spanish Am…
A stakeholder empire
This article revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatory colonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources and populations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using eighteenth-century Spanish American treasury accounts, we show that local elites exerted important control not only over revenue collection, as previously argued by the authors, but also over expenditure allocation. The Spanish colonial state developed…
The Spanish Empire and its legacy
The comparative history of the Americas has been used to identify factors determining longterm economic growth. One approach, new institutional economics (NIE), claims that the colonial origins of respective institutional structures explain North American success and Spanish American failure. Another argues that differences in resources encountered by Europeans fostered divergent levels of equality impacting on institutions and growth. This paper…
Representation Without Taxation, Taxation Without Consent
The essay examines Spain’s colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses the relative burden imposed by colonialism. Constitutional asymmetries between revenue collecting and spending agents constrained de facto governments’ power to tax. Inherent disparities embedded in the colonial fiscal system worsened with vaguely defined representation for subje…
Revisiting the Legacy of Colonialism in Africa, India and Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Problemas y fuentes para el estudio del financiamiento de la formación del Estado en Argentina. Buenos Aires en 1850-1860
.
The Spanish Empire and its legacy
The comparative history of the Americas has been used to identify factors determining longterm economic growth. One approach, new institutional economics (NIE), claims that the colonial origins of respective institutional structures explain North American success and Spanish American failure. Another argues that differences in resources encountered by Europeans fostered divergent levels of equality impacting on institutions and growth. This paper…
Response to Carlos Marichal and William Summerhill
We thank Carlos Marichal, William Summerhill, and the editors of the HAHR for taking up the debate on how to assess the governance structures under lying Spanish rule in the Iberian Peninsula and the American colonies and (more generally) the current use of institutional explanations in social sciences and history as determinants of differential economic development. Both commentators seem perfectly comfortable with our actual numbers and our att…
Bargaining for Absolutism
Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical "experiment" underpins the core argument of new institutional economic history. This essay argues that such comparisons are based on a misleading characterization of Spanish rule in the metropolis and overseas. For some time, historians of Spain and colonial Spanish Am…
A stakeholder empire
This article revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatory colonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources and populations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using eighteenth-century Spanish American treasury accounts, we show that local elites exerted important control not only over revenue collection, as previously argued by the authors, but also over expenditure allocation. The Spanish colonial state developed…
Roy Hora, Historia económica de la Argentina en el siglo XIX (Buenos Aires
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Representation Without Taxation, Taxation Without Consent
The essay examines Spain’s colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses the relative burden imposed by colonialism. Constitutional asymmetries between revenue collecting and spending agents constrained de facto governments’ power to tax. Inherent disparities embedded in the colonial fiscal system worsened with vaguely defined representation for subje…
Revisiting the Legacy of Colonialism in Africa, India and Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The instrument of private trade finance in the early modern global trade beyond Europe. Introduction to the collection of articles
This collection of articles focuses on some instruments that served to finance the expansion of private European trade and enabled the European intermediation of global commerce in the early modern period. Because they were distinct from those featured by the financial modernization of northern European economies -i.e. banks, bills and bonds, they have been conventionally assumed as archaic and lacking the efficiency and productivity gains of the…
Foreign monies and exchange risk in pre-modern maritime private trade – (or why did European bills not circulate outside Europe?)
By specifying the currency on which returns were to be repaid, respondentia was a ubiquitous financial instrument to carry international trade. Where multiple currencies existed and silver specie was the preferred money, imported silver performed as foreign currency. Thus, the import of foreign coins created issues for prices, profits, and exchange rates. Eighteenth-century Europeans alternatively used respondentia or bills depending on the monet…
China inside out
This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid-nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific coins. Before the 1850s, money markets became increasingly efficient, as reliance on bills of exchange allow…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)