Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty

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Baskes, Jeremy. "Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty". Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2013, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804786355-003

Baskes, J. (2013). Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty. In Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820 (pp. 1-16). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804786355-003

Baskes, J. 2013. Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty. Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804786355-003

Baskes, Jeremy. "Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty" In Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820, 1-16. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804786355-003

Baskes J. Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty. In: Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2013. p.1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804786355-003

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Figures and tables ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty 1
Chapter 2. Staying informed: the risks of poor information in Atlantic world trade 17
Chapter 3. The institutions of trade and the reduction of market risk: the convoy system 43
Chapter 4. Comercio libre and the rise of commercial risk 69
Chapter 5. The rising demand for credit and the escalation of risk in the post-1778 era 110
Chapter 6. Trade in war and peace 146
Chapter 7. Underwriting risk: the structure and organization of insurance partnerships in late eighteenth- century Cadiz 179
Chapter 8. Insuring against risk: analysis of insurance policies and the perception of risk in Atlantic world trade 205
Chapter 9. War and commercial crisis: the profitability of the Cadiz insurance industry in the 1790s 256
Chapter 10. Conclusion: staying afloat 274
Notes 283
Bibliography 363
Index 381
Social science history 394

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Figures and tables ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction: risk and uncertainty 1
Chapter 2. Staying informed: the risks of poor information in Atlantic world trade 17
Chapter 3. The institutions of trade and the reduction of market risk: the convoy system 43
Chapter 4. Comercio libre and the rise of commercial risk 69
Chapter 5. The rising demand for credit and the escalation of risk in the post-1778 era 110
Chapter 6. Trade in war and peace 146
Chapter 7. Underwriting risk: the structure and organization of insurance partnerships in late eighteenth- century Cadiz 179
Chapter 8. Insuring against risk: analysis of insurance policies and the perception of risk in Atlantic world trade 205
Chapter 9. War and commercial crisis: the profitability of the Cadiz insurance industry in the 1790s 256
Chapter 10. Conclusion: staying afloat 274
Notes 283
Bibliography 363
Index 381
Social science history 394

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