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Risky markets marine insurance in Renaissance Florence
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Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is ...
Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is carried out in Renaissance Florence.
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- Creator
- Giovanni Ceccarelli
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
- 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789004442450, 9004442456, 9789004399129, 9004399127
- OCLC
- on1239989620
- Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- Chapter 5 The Premium: Structural Factors -- Chapter 6 The Premium: Contingent Factors -- Chapter 7 The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- Chapter 8 The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- Chapter 9 The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- Chapter 10 The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- Chapter 11 The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Chapter 12 Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index