Information and decision making: The logic of Spanish mining administration, 1675–1700

• Peter Paul Marckhgott-Sanabria ^[1]
  1. [1] Austrian Academy of Sciences

     Austrian Academy of Sciences

     Innere Stadt, Austria

     
• Localización: Mining, money and markets in the early modern Atlantic: digital approaches and new perspectives / Renate Pieper (ed. lit.), Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies (ed. lit.), Markus A. Denzel (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 9783030238933, págs. 185-208
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • During the late seventeenth century, the Consejo de Hacienda, the central administrative institution charged with governing the Spanish public mining sector, strived to gain extensive information on mining-related topics. The knowledge base created in this way was not a product of an illustrated, merely encyclopaedic interest, nor expression of a supposed “monarchy of paper”, where copious amounts of reports on any conceivable topic were produced to little effect. This chapter will show (1) that such a knowledge base was crucial in enabling a closer control over publicly owned mines as demanded by the monarch Charles II, and (2) that the Consejo de Hacienda disposed of an array of complementary instruments for acquiring mining-related knowledge