Outputs (28)

The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy (2023)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2023). The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy. In H. Paul, N. Di Liberto, & D. Coffman (Eds.), The Bubble Act : New Perspectives from Passage to Repeal and Beyond (13-36). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31894-8_2

The alleged failings of contemporary marine insurance were cited in the opening article of the Bubble Act of 1720 as the reason why its passage was necessary. The act declared that, by granting exclusive charters to two new London corporations to und... Read More about The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy.

Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2022)
Book
Pearson, R. (in press). Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Thoresby Society

This book offers the first comprehensive account of all aspects of life in the industrial out-townships of Leeds, including their social, economic, political, religious, educational and cultural histories, during their period of transition from eight... Read More about Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002 (2022)
Book
Pearson, R. (2022). Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94088-1

Rapid structural change resulting from system collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other financial institutions. One exception was the crisis at the Lloyd’s insurance market in the late twentieth century. Hitherto, explanations... Read More about Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002.

Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history (2020)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (in press). Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history. Business history, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1808885

Reinsurance is often characterised as a business built on personal relationships, goodwill and mutual trust. However, at different times in its history observers have warned that technological and other changes threaten the survival of normative prac... Read More about Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history.

Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance (2020)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (2021). Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance. Enterprise & society, 22(4), 1037-1066. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.26

The history of insurance has been characterized in most countries by the coexistence of a wide range of organizational forms. The reasons for this plethora of vehicles remain unclear, as does the impact of this diversity on the development of insuran... Read More about Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance.

Risk and the Insurance Business in History (2020)
Book
Pons, J., & Pearson, R. (Eds.). (2020). Risk and the Insurance Business in History. Fundación MAPFRE

Definitions of risk and liability vary between cultures, and the boundary between voluntary and involuntary risks is a moveable one that is socially, rather than scientifically, constructed. What is regarded as a normal risk changes not only with tec... Read More about Risk and the Insurance Business in History.

The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment (2020)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (in press). The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment. Business history, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1769606

Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2019)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Richardson, D. (2019). Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 417-446. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000068

Copyright © 2019 The Economic History Association. One important, but overlooked, risk mitigation device that facilitated the growth of the slave trade in the eighteenth century was the increasing availability of insurance for ships and their human c... Read More about Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present (2019)
Thesis
Borrinaga, G. E. R. Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222102

The study sheds light on local responses to 2013’s Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, then the strongest storm to make landfall, by examining the local history and culture of the people of Samar and Leyte, Philippines, the area worst affected by the storm... Read More about Solidarity and crisis-derived identities in Samar and Leyte, Philippines, 1565 to present.

The socio-economic setting for developing tontines from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (2018)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2018). The socio-economic setting for developing tontines from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. In P. Hellwege (Ed.), The Past, Present, and Future of Tontines: A Seventeenth Century Financial Product and the Development of Life Insurance (79-108). (1). Duncker & Humblot