The public works in 17thCastile: an onerous and unknown tax

Abstract

The studies of the public works in Golden Age Spain were focused on its technical and artistic aspects, but not on its economic consequences. But the urban infrastructure maintenance and the building of bridges, what required frequently the contribution of thousand of places, were expensive. Its financing, what needed the authorization of Council of Castile, increased the oppressive taxation of the 17th century, and its management had its same nature of privatization, lack of control and fraud.

Keywords

• obras públicas
• fiscalidad
• fraude fiscal
• consejo de castilla
• corona de castilla
• siglo xvii