Staying afloat : risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760 - 1820
Jeremy Baskes
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2013
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| Authors: | Baskes, Jeremy |
| Publisher: |
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press |
| Subject: | Schifffahrt | Shipping | Risikomanagement | Risk management | Transportversicherung | Transportation insurance | Institutioneller Wandel | Institutional change | Kolonialismus | Colonialism | Handelsgeschichte | History of trade | Spanien | Spain | Amerika | America | Kolonialhandel | Atlantischer Ozean | Risiko | Geschichte 1760-1820 | 1760-1820 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | XIV, 393 S. graph. Darst. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : risk and uncertaintyStaying informed : the risks of poor information in Atlantic world trade -- The institutions of trade and the reduction of market risk : the convoy system -- Comercio libre and the rise of commercial risk -- The rising demand for credit and the escalation of risk in the post-1778 era -- Trade in war and peace -- Underwriting risk : the structure and organization of insurance partnerships in late eighteenth-century Cadiz -- Insuring against risk : analysis of insurance policies and the perception of risk in Atlantic world trade -- War and commercial crisis : the profitability of the Cadiz insurance industry in the 1790s -- Conclusion : staying afloat. Introduction : risk and uncertainty -- Staying informed : the risks of poor information in Atlantic world trade -- The institutions of trade and the reduction of market risk : the convoy system -- Comercio libre and the rise of commercial risk -- The rising demand for credit and the escalation of risk in the post-1778 era -- Trade in war and peace -- Underwriting risk : the structure and organization of insurance partnerships in late eighteenth-century Cadiz -- Insuring against risk : analysis of insurance policies and the perception of risk in Atlantic world trade -- War and commercial crisis : the profitability of the Cadiz insurance industry in the 1790s -- Conclusion : staying afloat. Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2013 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-8542-6 |
| Classification: | Spanien, Portugal ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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