@article{1452678,
      author = {Fusaro, Maria, and Addobbati, Andrea, and Piccinno,  Luisa,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1452678},
      title = {General average and risk management in medieval and early  modern maritime business /},
      abstract = {Maria Fusaro is Professor in Early Modern Social and  Economy History at the University of Exeter, UK, where she  directs the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies. She is  the PI for the ERC-funded project 'AveTransRisk Average  Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First  Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)'. Andrea  Addobbati is Professor of Early Modern History at the  University of Pisa, Italy. Luisa Piccinno is Associate  Professor of Economic History at the Department of  Economics of University of Genoa, Italy. This open access  book explores the history of risk management in medieval  and early modern European maritime business, focusing  particularly on 'General Average' a mechanism by which  extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred  during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all  participants to protect equity. This volume traces the  history of this risk management tool from its origins in  the pre-Roman Mediterranean through to its use in the  shipping sector today. Contributions range from the Islamic  Mediterranean to the Low Countries, and taken together,  provide a wide-ranging analysis of social, cultural, and  political aspects of pre-modern maritime commerce in  Europe.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04118-1},
      recid = {1452678},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
}