Institutions and public goods under the Atlantic empires: the PUB dimension

The institutions-and-public-goods dimension of the empire benchmark loaded for the Spanish Atlantic - hospitals ordered by law for Spanish and Indian towns, Quiroga's welfare communities, community treasuries, salaried native legal aid, the 1577 statistical questionnaire and the 1573 town-planning code - against the settler-serving institutions of British America, with the funding leaks and unequal access documented from the same laws that built the architecture.