banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of … bank decision taking changed over time. Chapters also analyse the types of risk management techniques used, the … bankers´ risk management and decision taking - from system theory to behavioural finance, new institutional economics to …

Risk and reinsurance / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones -- The cultural context of insurance in the West …? Resistance to codification and avoidance of state jurisdiction in the twentieth century / Miloš Vec -- What is an insurable risk …