RT Journal Article
T1 Global Quantification and Inventory Demand for Silver in China
A1 Jin, Cao
A1 Flynn, Dennis O.
K1 Global silver history
K1 Inventory demand
K1 Inventory supply
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB This article provides an initial (partial) estimate of silver quantities held within China around mid-18th century, utilising archival evidence related to wealth confiscations. Better future estimates for overall Chinese silver holdings could also facilitate more accurate estimation of Chinese silver (legal plus illegal) imports. Similar analyses for other world regions could eventually yield estimates for global silver stock holdings, useful in turn for improving global silver mining and trade flow estimates. Extensive contraband silver mining and silver trade are known to have escaped official recordation, by definition. If methodologies suggested herein prove successful, then parallel non-silver-trade-good estimates could follow. Current exclusive focus upon production and trade flows should be reevaluated in the context of linkages with accumulations of goods (wealth components). Economic history could someday provide a prominent stage for the historical study of wealth holdings, thereby furnishing context for increasing wealth concentrations observable worldwide today.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0212-6109
YR 2020
FD 2020-12-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/9155
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/9155
LA en
NO Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 38, no. 3 (2020): 421-47
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026