Génesis y competencia de las Juntas de Comercio, Moneda y Minas

Abstract

What is presented below is essentially mercantilist the theory that the Crown applied to the Spanish Empire in the XVIIth century, the theory that the wealth of a country is based solely on supplies of gold and silver. We had to find resources inside and outside the mainland. The massive influx of gold and silver to Spain meant a considerable increase in prices in history known as "the rebellion of prices." The Crown King tested solutions and accumulates all powers, legislative, executive and judicial branches in their hands to govern and surrounds himself with trusted people, secretaries, the head of a council of a State administration dedicated to specific and unique body of management Guerra, Finance ... Each Council is responsible for its role exclusively and none intrudes on another's work. Taking into account the desirability of improving the economy of Spain and its empire solves the Crown applied with particular care in institutional reform based on the power game around the mining, currency and trade, tripod essential for the settlement of the Spanish economy and begin with the creation of a Board of Trade, with full powers in matters of trade and commerce, with inhibition of any authority external to it, just as establishing a Currency Board with exclusive jurisdiction over its business.