Freaks of Fortune : : The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America / / Jonathan Levy.
Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essenti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 5 tables |
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