Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk
ISBN: 9781501734939
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Risk (Insurance) -- History; International trade -- History;

Virginia Haufler shows that a crucial factor in the expansion of global markets has been the private sector's creation of a sophisticated insurance industry to redistribute the risks entailed in foreign commerce, a privately constructed safety net for international transactions.


Virginia Haufler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park. She is co-editor of New Institutionalism: Institutions and Social Order.

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