Published 2020-08-12 — Updated on 2021-04-28
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Keywords
- Price History,
- Colonial Brazil,
- Exchange rate
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Copyright (c) 2020 Angelo Alves Carrara
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Price history in Brazil is not a theme that have at tracted many historians. However, many researchers have in the last few years proceeded to building price series as a central resource, namely to the period after 1808, but the same is not true for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.This article aims at introducing some methodologial issues concerning the building of price series, with special attention to the possibilities of constructing a conversion factor to some currencies in the period.