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Staying afloat

by Baskes, Jeremy,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Social science history Published by : Stanford University Press, (Stanford, Calif. :) Physical details: xiv, 393 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Risk management -- Spain -- History. | Merchant marine -- Spain -- History. | Marine insurance -- Spain -- History. | Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History. | Spain -- Commerce -- America -- History. | America -- Commerce -- Spain -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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