Article ID: CBB001021386

The Price for Risk-Taking: Marine Insurance and Probability (2007)

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Ceccarelli, Giovanni (Author)


Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 3, no. 1
Issue: 1


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: http://www.jehps.net/Juin2007/Ceccarelli_Risk.pdf (Accessed on November 19, 2010). Part of a special issue, “Medieval Probabilities”
Language: English

The practice of marine insurance allowed late Medieval merchants to evaluate various of factors of risk involved in the sea trade, either structural or contingent, as can be shown through a detailed inquiry mainly based on the Datini archives in Prato. Although businessmen did not develop a notion of probability in a strict statistical sense, they made use of various levels of probabilistic reasoning, depending on the degree of uncertainty that they had to face.

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Authors & Contributors
Borgato, Maria Teresa
Alborn, Timothy L.
Barone, Luca
Bellhouse, David R.
Burns, Robert Ignatius
Glimp, David
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Boydell & Brewer
Boydell Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Science Museum Library
Carnegie Mellon University
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Insurance
Mercantile mathematics; industrial mathematics
Business and commerce
Science and economics
People
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
de Finetti, Bruno
Euler, Leonhard
Gundisalvo, Domingo
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
18th century
14th century
15th century
19th century
Places
Europe
France
Germany
England
Great Britain
Portugal
Institutions
Cambridge University
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