The Burden of Risk: Early Modern Maritime Enterprise and Varieties of Capitalism
Fusaro, M
Date: 6 March 2020
Journal
Business History Review
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP) for Harvard Business School
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Abstract
This essay will discuss the complex issues behind the relation between national
and global economic histories, and the challenges of a comparative approach. Discussing
different national approaches – Italian and English – to the management of the early
modern maritime sector, it will argue that this comparison allows a privileged ...
This essay will discuss the complex issues behind the relation between national
and global economic histories, and the challenges of a comparative approach. Discussing
different national approaches – Italian and English – to the management of the early
modern maritime sector, it will argue that this comparison allows a privileged window into
different varieties of capitalism, highlighting fundamental differences in the attitudes
towards wage labour and risk management, which still today influence different approaches
to economic activities.
History
Collections of Former Colleges
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