While much has been written about the political ideas of the revolution, little of anything has been written about its economic ideas. This paper is an attempt to provide an intellectual background to the economic policies and directives emanating from the Malolos Republic. It traces the source of the revolutions economic to cameralist ideas, as handed down by liberal Spanish thinkers and practical policy reformers. It documents these influences in the revolutions¡¯ policies towards public finance in general, personal taxation, trade, and the important agrarian question.
