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...

This essay aims at retracing the intellectual and biographical events of the economist Gino Arias (1879–1940), examining more in detail the two seasons at the opposite ends of his life: the early one that saw him considerably committed to the Zionist cause and the one that, thirty years later,...