Resumo

GELMAN, Jorge  e  SANTILLI, Daniel. The Distribution of Wealth in Rural Buenos Aires between the End of the Colony and the First Half of the 19th Century. A Moderate and Downward Inequality?. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.2, pp.7-41. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v25i1.891.

This paper aims to stretch backwards the outlook on Buenos Aires inequality, which we had studied previously for the mid-19th century decades. Our starting point is the hypothesis that the economic shift after the crisis of the colonial order in Buenos Aires must have affected sharply the value of resources and their distribution among groups and individuals. In order to study this major transformation, it is necessary to reconstruct useful historical price series. In this case, we have worked with rural census data from 1789 in order to establish connections to the available information for the following century. We will study land and cattle property within three rural districts –Magdalena, Pilar, and Areco– applying the tools we have used in previous research, so that the results can be compared with other periods.

Palavras-chave : wealth distribution; inequality; rural economy.