Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America by Jonathan Levy

Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

Jonathan Levy

432 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high se...

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