Open AccessConsumption and Control: The México City Business Community and Commodity Marketing in the 18th Century
Author(s) -
John E. Kicza
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
estudios de historia novohispana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1870-9060
pISSN - 2448-6922
DOI - 10.22201/iih.24486922e.1992.012.3359
Subject(s) - commodity , agriculture , consumption (sociology) , investment (military) , product (mathematics) , agricultural economics , control (management) , economics , business , economy , economic history , commerce , marketing , geography , market economy , political science , management , archaeology , social science , law , sociology , geometry , mathematics , politics
Scholars have long recognized that despite the a11ure of quick and substantial profits offered by investment in mining and commerce, agriculture and ranching in fact rendered the greatest part of New Spain's gross domestic product throughout much of the colonia1 period. Certainly such was the case in the eighteenth century, when such indicators as tithe income records note the rapid increase in agricultural out-put.