All Outputs (28)

Mergers and concentration in the uk insurance industry (2013)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (2013). Mergers and concentration in the uk insurance industry. Entreprises et histoire, 72(3), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.3917/eh.072.0007

As in other aspects of modern business development, the British insurance industry was a precocious exponent of mergers and acquisitions. Some of the first corporate mergers in history took place in British fire insurance during the late eighteenth c... Read More about Mergers and concentration in the uk insurance industry.

Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2010)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2010). Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In G. Clark, G. Anderson, C. Thomann, & J.-M. G. von der Schulenburg (Eds.), The Appeal of Insurance (75 - 106). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685888

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The Appeal of Insurance explores how insurance has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays illuminate the dialectical relations... Read More about Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

The development of international insurance (2010)
Book
Pearson, R. (Ed.). (2010). The development of international insurance. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315655925

© Robin Pearson 2010. All right reserved. Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redresses this b... Read More about The development of international insurance.

Introduction: Towards an international history of insurance (2010)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2010). Introduction: Towards an international history of insurance. In R. Pearson (Ed.), The Development of International Insurance (1-24). Pickering & Chatto. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315655925

Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies (2008)
Book Chapter
Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2008). Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies. In A. Laurence, J. Maltby, & J. Rutterford (Eds.), Women and their money, 1700-1950: Essays on women and finance (95-114). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203885994

As the pilgrims came to rest on the Enchanted Ground, Mr Stand-fast, in Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684), told his friends of an encounter on the road.

‘As I was thus musing . . . there was one in very pleasant attire, but old, that presente... Read More about Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies.

Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800 (2008)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Richardson, D. (2008). Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800. Business history, 50(6), 765-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790802420336

The growth of the Atlantic economy during the eighteenth century has been associated with developments in business networking to mitigate the hazards of communication in long-distance trade. Such social capital-based mechanisms reduced transaction co... Read More about Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800.

Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914 (2008)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Lönnborg, M. (2008). Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914. Business History Review, 82(1), 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000768050003751x

At the end of the twentieth century, the global diffusion of one important financial service, insurance, was encouraged by deregulation, but it also encountered difficulties where deregulation remained incomplete and where there were many nonregulato... Read More about Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914.

Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850 (2004)
Book
Pearson, R. (Ed.). (2004). Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315252193

© Robin Pearson 2004. Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken serious... Read More about Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850.