| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16467 |
| DP16467 Forced Labor in Colonial Spanish America | |
| Leticia Arroyo Abad; Noel Maurer | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-17 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The Spanish colonial empire initially faced a trilemma in the New World. First, they needed to incentivize quasi-private Spanish expeditions to subdue, settle, and secure new territories. Second, they needed labor to develop the new territories and provide a stream of rents for the imperial government. Third, they needed to ensure that the Spanish colonists did not grow powerful enough to challenge imperial authority. We show how the Spanish solved this trilemma in three ways, all involving forced labor: (1) transplanting Iberian institutions; (2) repurposing existing pre-Columbian institutions; (3) importing African slaves. We present evidence that over time forced labor in Spanish America underwent an endogenous process of decay as power slowly shifted from the Spanish-American colonial elite to indigenous labor. The end result was the increasing dominance of wage labor on the American mainland, leaving most forced labor arrangement either moribund or in decay by the time the empire collapsed. The commodity boom around the circum-Caribbean combined with geographic factors explains why this process was slower there (and short-circuited entirely in the case of Cuba). |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History |
| 关键词 | Labor coercion Institutions Latin america |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16467 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545424 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Leticia Arroyo Abad,Noel Maurer. DP16467 Forced Labor in Colonial Spanish America. 2021. |
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