Maritime Risk Management. Essays on the History of Marine Insurance, General Average and Sea Loan.

Insurance is a legal, an actuarial and a financial product, and it is one out of many risk management strategies. It follows that its history can only be studied in the broader context of the development of such strategies, applying an interdisciplinary approach. The theme of the present volume is m...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Duncker & Humblot 2021
Series:Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law / Studien zur vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts 11
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Summary:Insurance is a legal, an actuarial and a financial product, and it is one out of many risk management strategies. It follows that its history can only be studied in the broader context of the development of such strategies, applying an interdisciplinary approach. The theme of the present volume is maritime risk management, and the contributions to it analyse different such strategies by adopting a variety of methodological approaches, spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
ISBN:978-3-428-58260-0
Access:Open Access