The Price for Risk-Taking: Marine Insurance and Probability Calculus in the Late Middle Ages
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The practice of marine insurance allowed late Medieval merchants to evaluate various of factors of risk involved in the sea trade, either structural or contingent, as can be shown through a detailed inquiry mainly based on the Datini archives in Prato. Although businessmen did not develop a notion of probability in a strict “statistical” sense, they made use of various levels of “probabilistic reasoning”, depending on the degree of uncertainty that they had to face.
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