Documento mecanografiado.

Contenido: Geography, grops and population -- Labor organization and reciprocity -- Commercial circuite in Cinti: vineyards, mules and gane juice -- twentieth century economic decline -- Carapari: industrialization without reciprocity -- The sociedad agrícola, ganadera e industrial de Cinti: efficiency versus reciprocity -- Conclusions.

The discovery and large scale explotation of the Potosí silver mines soon after the Spanish conquest created a regional economic network encompassing much of the Andean area that supplied the mines with labor, foodstuffs, and livestock, this network, though truncated and weakened, survived into the republican period. The resurgence of silver mining in the late nineteenth century strengthened ties wetween some of the old supply areas and the Potosí mining districtts. Yet, the revival of silver mining, with the building of railcards and the penetration of foreing capital, carried with it the seeds of the desintegration of the regional economy created in the colonial period. Depletion of the silver mines at the end of the century, and the tin mining boom in the twentieth century, further disrupted the old commercial network leading to its final destruction during depression in the 1930's.