Maritime averages and the complexity of risk management in sixteenth-century Antwerp

This article aims to explain the hitherto unexplored role of General Average and other forms of maritime averages in risk management in sixteenth-century Antwerp. Whereas most scholarly attention has focused on insurance, this article makes the case that maritime averages also were an important too...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gijs Dreijer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2020-10-01
Series:Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
Subjects:
GA
Online Access:https://openjournals.nl/index.php/tseg/article/view/8368