Staying afloat risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 /
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10726009 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.