Biography

Juan José Rivas Moreno is a historian of global trade and finance during the Early Modern period, specialising in the Spanish Pacific trade and the capital market of Manila during the long eighteenth century. Juan José received the Economic History Society (UK) Power Fellowship 2023/2024, and obtained his PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2023 with a dissertation entitled ‘An Alternative Model for long-distance Trade Finance: The Capital Market of Manila, 1668-1838’.

Juan José is interested in the history of monetary flows and of capital markets; his research sits at the intersection of trade, finance, and business history from a global and comparative perspective. He was the beneficiary of an ESRC doctoral training partnership, and a Newberry Library short-term fellowship. Juan José has written on the organisation of the capital market of Manila, accounting practices in Early Modern religious institutions, and the connection between Manila and the English East India Company for Spanish, Italian, and British publications, and is currently working on the monograph of his first book.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Juan José plans on expanding his research to study the connection between the Pacific and the Indo-European trade circuits during the eighteenth century, in order to assess the impact of Pacific silver flows in the organisation and evolution of European trade within maritime Asia.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Finance and society

Mentor

• Giorgio Riello

Recent research output

• RIVAS MORENO, Juan Jose (2024), The capital market of Manila and the Pacific trade, 1668-1838 : institutions and trade during the first globalization, Book
• RIVAS MORENO, Juan Jose (2024), The far side of capitalism : institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century, Article