Publicaciones > Eating, drinking, paying. The price of food in Montevideo in the late colonial period.
articulo
Eating, drinking, paying. The price of food in Montevideo in the late colonial period.
Fecha de publicación
2020
Autor/es
María Inés Moraes
Datos editoriales
Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, DOI: 10.1017/S0212610920000117
Abstract
This paper gathers information on the diet of the people of Montevideo. It puts forward some hypotheses regarding the caloric intake of the plebeian and non-elite social groups, introduces two Laspeyres indexes of food prices for Montevideo in 1760-1810, analyses the movements of food prices in Montevideo in this period and compares the case of Montevideo with neighbouring cities.