El mercado del tabaco en España durante el siglo XVIII: fiscalidad y consumo. Edited by Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, Sergio Solbes Ferri, and Juan José Laforet. Las Palmas: Fundación Altadis, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Gran Canaria, 2000. Pp. vi, 311.
本书收录九篇论文，探讨18世纪西班牙王室烟草专卖制度如何影响消费者、供应商、投资者和官员的行为，适合研究早期现代欧洲财政与消费的学者。
In 1636 the Kingdom of Castile implemented a royal monopoly that made the manufacture, sale, and distribution of tobacco the exclusive, though alienable, prerogative of the Crown. This new device—politically palatable because it was not levied on a “necessity of life,” and fiscally attractive because tobacco seemed to enjoy inelastic and ever-expanding demand—soon extended to the other kingdoms in Spain and throughout Europe. So it is not surprising that most of the nine essays in this collection concern how the renta de tabaco , as the royal monopoly was known by the eighteenth century, affected the behavior of consumers, suppliers, investors, and royal officials in Spain and beyond.