At national or international levels, many academic meetings have been held recently on the diverse aspects of historical research dealing with welfare conditions in the past, either from ancient or recent times. The last WEHC, held in Kyoto in 2015, was no exception: it included a successful session titled “Welfare, inequality and standards of living compared: America, Europe and Asia, ca. 1500-2000”. Some of the participants at that meeting are now proposing this new session which will present the results of new research on economic and biologic standards of living.
More precisely, the session we propose focuses on the Iberian and Latin American cases. The two of them are already present in the global picture of living standards from which they have been absent until not so long ago. The time period chosen is the same as in Kyoto. The amplitude of the period shows our interest in the long run and on changes and continuities resulting from modern economic growth or the lack of it. We invite, then, to send communications on the following topics: indexes of prices and income from wages and other sources; consumption baskets from “third generation” which improve the methodology used so far; biological welfare indicators, such as heights.
We especially welcome those communications that compare across time and space or combine approaches from different disciplines (History, Economics, Anthropometrics, etc.). English, Portuguese and Spanish languages are accepted.