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| #758096 in eBooks | 2012-10-29 | 2012-10-29 | File type: PDF||10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Eye-opening, insightful, scholarly, every page a pleasure|By Phil O.|This book has opened my eyes to depths and meanings of risk, risk transfer, insurance, and a great array of related topics, I never grasped at anything like this level before. (I'm a law teacher of some 3 decades' experience, without a formal finance background.) In this sweeping canvas, we also witness a se||A most informative and imaginative study of the many roles played by risk and the attempts to offset it in American economic development. Levy's insights will substantially enrich our understanding of the American past. (Stanley L. Engerman, author of Slave
Until the nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future.
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