A pre-modern cultural history of risk : imagining the future
Gaspar Mairal
"This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of 'managing the future' by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law in Medieval Mediterranean to the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance; from the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year to the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk- time, knowledge, relationship and probability- and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical timeframe. A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management."
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2020
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Authors: | Mairal, Gaspar |
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2020: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge |
Subject: | Risiko | Risk | Kulturgeschichte | Cultural history | Westliche Staaten | Western countries | Risikomanagement | Risikotheorie |
Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
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Extent: | ix, 255 Seiten |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-0-367-36185-3 ; 978-0-429-34440-4 |
Classification: | Methoden und Techniken der Volkswirtschaft |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128074
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