Consumo y crecimiento pre-industrial
Todo partio con la siguiente cita (sobre comunidades rurales en la Italia de inicios del Imperio en Roma) This conspicuous consumption stimulated market production. The installation of mosaic floors and painted walls cost money. Arretine ceramics, lamps, glass, and even utilitarian pots were purchased goods. These were added to the cost of rent, animals, farm labor and equipment. Considerable amounts of cash or cahs equivalents had to be raised by the sale of farm products (Stephen Dyson, 1992, Community and Society in Roman Italy, Cambridge University Press: 141) Que me acordó del argumento de De Vries sobre la revolución industriosa … Siga leyendo