RT Journal Article
T1 An Empire of Networks: The Political Economy of the Habsburgs in the Caribbean (1492–1556)
A1 Cachero Vinuesa, Montserrat
A1 Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
K1 Privileges
K1 16th century
K1 Empires
K1 Latin America
AB This article presents an analysis of privileges as one of the instruments used for the colonization of the New World. Based on an original dataset comprising more than five hundred prerogatives granted by the Spanish Crown, this article applies network analysis to reconstruct and map the concession of privileges by the Habsburg monarchy during the first half of the 16th century. In a high uncertainty scenario, we depict privileges as a necessary cost assumed by the monarchy to solve the principal-agent problem by building up a structure to facilitate information flow, enabling the remote governance of overseas territories.
PB University of Luxembourg
YR 2022
FD 2022-11-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22464
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22464
LA en
NO Journal of Historical Network Research 7 (2022) 181 – 215
NO El artículo presenta el análisis del mercado de privilegios generado por la Monarquía Hispánica durante el siglo XVI. Se trata del resultado de la investigación desarrollada durante la estancia realizada por Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa en el Center for History and Economics, Harvard University.The Polycentric Model of Shared Sovereignty (16th and 17th centuries) [HAR-2013- 45357-P
NO UPO, Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026