ENTRE EL HUMANISMO Y EL MERCANTILISMO: EL BIEN COMúN EN EL ABASTO DE CARNE DE CIUDAD DE MéXICO, 1708-1716

this article analyzes the political practices exercised by local government officials in mexico city in the early eighteenth century, around the meat supply. the idea is to observe the common good, but settled not only in humanism doctrine, but also within a mercantilist policy, in which the economic interests of the crown intended to come together as one body with those of his subjects.