The Spanish Enlightenment and Happiness Economics. The case of Seville’s Economic Society of Friends of the Country and its project to trade meat salting with Buenos Aires Province (1778)

The Enlightened Movement in Spain is widely known for its modernizing effort and economic social reform projects the 18th 19th centuries. In line with European Enlightenment, ideals of classical liberalism utilitarianism began to spread hand enlightened intellectuals as a paradigm towards well-being people.
 anthropocentric turn Enlightenment brought it not only struggle rights man consequent evolution absolute monarchies despotism, but also very perception wealth, happiness society. Thanks works Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus or Jeremy Bentham, roots Happiness Economics can be traced back century through association they made between development society level happiness.
 This paper analyzes project Royal Sevillian Economic Society Friends Country salted meat trade province Buenos Aires case study connection development, Spanish transcripts sessions collected Libro de Actas No. 1 (1775-1780) copies letters Book Correspondence Society, well such loose papers available Municipal Archive Seville.