The Economic Activities of Nuns, Friars, and Their Conventos in Mid-Colonial Cuzco

Gibbs, Donald L.

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“…Peruvian merchant of the seventeenth century the best way to guarantee that he would have regular access to credit was to send his daughter, accompanied by a nice dowry, to one of the richer convents in his town (Burns 1999;Gibbs 1989). Yet competition between religious institutions was always muted, and there were few economies of scale.…”

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Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world

Irigoin¹,

Grafe²

2013

Questioning Credible Commitment

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Abstract:North's and Weingast's focus on the importance of a ruler's credible commitment to protecting property rights has become the standard approach to states' role in economic growth and been supported e.g. by the "legal origins" literature (LaPorta et al., 1998(LaPorta et al., , 2008 which argued that post-Glorious Revolution English institutions were particularly conducive to economic growth. But growth depends not only investor protection (legal capacity) but also the ability of the state to finance itself, "fiscal capacity". Persson, 2009, 2010) show that the protection of private property rights and that of public property rights to taxation are linked and likely co-evolutionary. However, the precise relation between the two is anything but clear. This paper argues that North and Weingast's model's one-sided focus on state coercion threatening private property rights has obscured the relation between coercion used in revenue collection and the role of fiscal capacity. Our very simple model shows that the relationship between fiscal capacity and legal capacity is not linear, especially in the phase of nation state building. Before 1800 states faced one of two very different central challenges. 1) States that already exhibited high levels of coercion had to try to keep in check the ruler's potential for predation as North and Weingast argued. 2) States that used very low levels of coercion faced a coordination problem instead of a predation issue. The case of Spain provides empirical evidence for the existence of states were an increase in coercion would have improved fiscal capacity, but high levels of legal capacity paradoxically prevented the ruler from adopting this path. Finally, we use financial market developments to show the serious welfare implications that resulted from such a lack of coordination and integration.

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Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world

Irigoin¹,

Grafe²

2013

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“…18. V&se Burns, 1984Burns, , 1991Gibbs, 1989;Manín, 1983. Para una penpeáiva mú amplia, ccnsúltese Lavrin 1985.…”

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Amor y rebelión en 1782: el caso de Mariano Túpac Amaru y María Mejía

Burns

1992

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Convents and Nuns: New Approaches to the Study of Female Religious Institutions in Colonial Mexico

Chowning

2008

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This article serves as an introduction to the subject of the colonial Mexican convent for non‐experts, while surveying recent historiographical trends. In the past ten years, historical scholarship on nuns and convents has taken three broad directions. First, historians have begun to study other female religious institutions and other kinds of religious women than cloistered convents and nuns, though the number of works that explicitly compare these institutions and experiences is still disappointingly small. Second, historians have focused on the understudied sixteenth‐ and late eighteenth‐century convents, with the result that we are beginning to gain a textured understanding of how the convent changed over time and responded to changes in the world around it. Third, the older feminist scholarship that tended to characterize the convent as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women – that is, either less subject to patriarchal maneuverings than the outside world, or more so – is being complicated by more subtle approaches that take nuns’ spirituality and the dynamics of community seriously. We are beginning to build a picture of a complex institution that still tells us much about women's experience in the colonial period, but also tells us a great deal about the institutional church and about the religious values of the broader society.

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The Economic Activities of Nuns, Friars, and Their Conventos in Mid-Colonial Cuzco

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world

Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world

Amor y rebelión en 1782: el caso de Mariano Túpac Amaru y María Mejía

Convents and Nuns: New Approaches to the Study of Female Religious Institutions in Colonial Mexico

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