AbstractThis chapter aims to provide a conceptual framework on risk and uncertainty, with the goal of helping the reader gain a better understanding of how risk is measured and managed. Beginning with Luca Pacioli until the recent development in the discipline of risk management, the theoretical...

<title>Abstract</title>Gino Arias (1879--1940) had made his academic debut as a legal historian and devoted himself to economics at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. As a prominent nationalist, he joined the Fascist regime from its very beginning and in 1925 was named official speaker of...