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Economic and environmental conditions for the diffusion of insurance in three non-Euro-American regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2023)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., Daudi, F., Kocher, E., & Musterle, C. (online). Economic and environmental conditions for the diffusion of insurance in three non-Euro-American regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, https://doi.org/10.1515/apjri-2022-0045

This paper discusses the macroeconomic and environmental conditions for the spread of insurance in three non-Western world regions (China, Middle East and sub-Sahara Africa). Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, it examines the patterns of econom... Read More about Economic and environmental conditions for the diffusion of insurance in three non-Euro-American regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history (2020)
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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)
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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.

Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2019)
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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.

Carter v Boehm: facts and context (2016)
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Pearson, R. (2016). Carter v Boehm: facts and context. Insurance Law Journal -Sydney-, 27(2-3), 113-123

There is a curious irony in the lawsuit Carter v Boehm. The final decision of the Court of King’s Bench, delivered by Chief Justice Mansfield at Easter 1766, famously articulated the principle of uberrima fides (utmost good faith), which became the s... Read More about Carter v Boehm: facts and context.

Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850 (2013)
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Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2013). Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850. Business history, 55(4), 636-652. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.741971

This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850. Based on a dataset of over 450 company constitutions together with qualitative information on gove... Read More about Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850.

Mergers and concentration in the uk insurance industry (2013)
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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.

Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800 (2008)
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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)
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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.