Historical roots of municipalities development: the Portuguese case

Autores

  • António de Jesus Fernandes de Matos Universidade da Beira Interior
  • Tiago Neves Sequeira
  • Marcelo Santos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7867/2317-5443.2021v9n2p7-32

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Counties, economic development, historical determinants of development, municipalities, Portugal.

Resumo

The development literature has pointed out some deeply rooted determinants of current economic development. We checked out the historical determinants of Portuguese municipalities’ development and also if the strength of the different dominant medieval classes (nobility, clergy, and bourgeoisie) in each Portuguese municipality has some importance for current economic and social development, using some historical proxies. The results indicate that the cathedral antiquity is statistically significant in explaining the purchasing power municipal index. It is interesting to observe that the proxy for the bourgeois power does not have influence in the most robust regressions, and that the proxy for nobility power (the castle antiquity) is negatively related to current purchasing power.

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Biografia do Autor

António de Jesus Fernandes de Matos, Universidade da Beira Interior

Professor auxiliar do Detpº de Gestão e Economia da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, desde 2000

Publicado

2021-07-28

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Matos, A. de J. F. de, Sequeira, T. N., & Santos, M. (2021). Historical roots of municipalities development: the Portuguese case. Revista Brasileira De Desenvolvimento Regional, 9(2), 7–32. https://doi.org/10.7867/2317-5443.2021v9n2p7-32

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