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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. Madrid: 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