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BOCANEGRA GASTELUM, Carmen O.. El comercio en Sonora: una visión desde la perspectiva de su evolución. Estud. front [online]. 2007, vol.8, n.15, pp.73-97. ISSN 2395-9134.

Commerce is one of the oldest activities in the history of man. Although this began with the exchange of goods for the daily survival, with the course of the centuries has reached a high degree of expressed complexity, among other things, in the type and establishments in which it takes supply-demand process. The objective of the present article focus on the analysis of the different stages by which the commerce in Sonora has passed, with particular emphasis in the last quarter of century, period in which the commercial competition has experienced deep transformation related to the size, origin and conformation of the establishment, the induction of consumption forms, the space distribution and the bonds between local and global exchange.

Palavras-chave : Commerce; consumption; supply-demand.