A Spanish mercantilist in the transistory period from voluntarism to maturalism : Conde Pedro Rodrigues Campomanes
Part of : Αρχείον οικονομικής ιστορίας ; Vol.XVI, No.1, 2004, pages 5-11
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A Spanish mercantilist in the transistory period from voluntarism to maturalism is Conde Pedro Rodrigues Campomanes. The author of the article presents the environment in which Campomanes proposed a new economic policy for the economic development of Spain. Campomanes sustains an economic policy of free trade with some measures to protect the industry which began to grow especially in Catalu~nia. Campomanes argued that the guilds hindered the function of market mechanism due to their intervention. The Spanish economist maintained also that the high inflation resulted in higher wages, which in their turn resulted in higher cost per unit. He also proposed some measures of taxation so as to enrich the spanish treasory.
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economic development, free trade, taxation
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JEL classification: N00, H2, O10
