TY - JOUR TI - Eating, Drinking, Paying. The Price of Food in Montevideo in the Late Colonial Period AU - Moraes, María Inés T2 - Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History AB - Abstract: This paper gathers information on the diet of the people of Montevideo. It puts forward some hypotheses regarding the caloric intake of the plebeian and non-elite social groups, introduces two Laspeyres indexes of food prices for Montevideo in 1760-1810, analyses the movements of food prices in Montevideo in this period and compares the case of Montevideo with neighbouring cities. DA - 2020/09// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1017/S0212610920000117 DP - Cambridge University Press VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 249 EP - 278 LA - en SN - 0212-6109, 2041-3335 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/revista-de-historia-economica-journal-of-iberian-and-latin-american-economic-history/article/abs/eating-drinking-paying-the-price-of-food-in-montevideo-in-the-late-colonial-period/8C3B7E1D8BCB4B45A4EDFDB0D29B8FD8 Y2 - 2021/03/18/17:47:55 KW - América Latina colonial KW - Business history in Latin America KW - Latin America KW - N36 KW - cost of living KW - costo de vida KW - historia de los precios KW - price history ER -