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- From an economic viewpoint the discovery of new silver and gold deposits as well as the productivity increase in the silver mining industry perpetuated the price revolution. When precious metals entered Spain, this influx drove up the Spanish price level and caused a balance of payments deficit.
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The Spanish price revolution began in about 1470 and lasted until around 1650, during which gold and silver poured into Spain from the new world. The amount of gold arriving from across the Atlantic each year drastically increased following the discovery of precious metals in South America.
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Sep 5, 2016 · Economist Earl Hamilton argues that prices in Spain rose 300 percent between 1500 and 1600. Part of this reason was the rapid increase in money (then silver and gold) chasing a fixed amount of goods. The consequence was that Spanish exports became uncompetitive in Europe.
The failure of the Spanish to control the influx of gold and the price fluctuations of gold and silver from the American mines, combined with war expenditures, led to three bankruptcies of the Spanish monarchy by the end of the 16th century.
Spain never received a surplus amount of gold. It wasn't until the mid 16th century that Spain discovered large deposits of silver in Peru, Mexico and Bolivia. These deposits largely fuelled a wave of trade in china.
Spain emerged from the civil war with formidable economic problems. Gold and foreign exchange reserves had been virtually wiped out, the massive devastation of war had reduced the productive capacity of both industry and agriculture.
In the sixteenth century gold and silver poured into Spain from Mexico, Peru and the rest of the Spanish Empire. Prices rose. The observation of a probable connection between the inflow of treasure and the rise in prices was one of the first formulations of an economic theory, in this case The Crude Quantity Theory of Money.
