This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business …

increasingly debated. Concerns about standards of business ethics extended to other industrialising economies, such as the United … establish its position in the global economy. The controversy and criticisms, which were at least in part stimulated by fear of … Japanese competition, are important in the history of thinking on business ethics, and are of relevance for today …

the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of … consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve published data about retail sales each month by Federal Reserve district …, but ceased to do so after 1929. It continued to compile monthly data on retail sales by reserve district, but this data …