“…The Río de la Plata economic space was not exempt from this discussion. Although it had the pioneering work of Johnson (1990) and Cuesta (2009) for Buenos Aires, new research has expanded the list of cities and historical periods analyzed (Arroyo Abad et al, 2012;Gelman and Santilli, 2018;Guzmán, 2018 and2021;Santilli, 2020aSantilli, , 2020bSchmit, 2020;Guzmán and Schmit, 2020;Djenderedjian and Martirén, 2015;Frid, 2017;Frid, Djenderedjian and Martiren, 2020;Moraes and Thul, 2018;Moraes, 2020).…”