El comercio de Galicia y con Galicia en la economía mundial del siglo XVIII. Para un estado de la cuestión

Abstract

The massive weight of the primary economy of subsistence in the Galicia of the Old Regime hides an important flow of mercantile transactions that they are developed in three superposed planes: in the fairs it stops most of the peasantry, in the markets for the urban and ruruban consumers and in the ports for the contacts with the peninsular and European market. The fairs also perform an important economic function in the interregional market. The author argues as much that the cattles are the main product supplier of currency to settle the commercial deficit of Galicia, before as after his opening to the free American commerce after 1764. From that date the complementariness and functional interpenetration of the peninsular, European and American trades darken the calculation of the mercantile Balance and its deficit.