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Risky markets marine insurance in Renaissance Florence Giovanni Ceccarelli
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ceccarelli, Giovanni., Author.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in maritime history volume 8
- Brill's Studies in Maritime History volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insurance--Italy--Florence--History--To 1500.
- Insurance.
- Insurance--Italy--Florence--History--16th century.
- Risk management--Italy--Florence--History--To 1500.
- Risk management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789004442450
- 9004442456
- OCLC:
- 1239989620
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