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  • The Burden of Risk: Early Modern Maritime Enterprise and Varieties of Capitalism

  • Maria Fusaro
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 94 / Issue 1 / Spring 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2020, pp. 179-200
    Print publication:
    Spring 2020

  • This article discusses the complex issues behind the relation between national and global economic histories and the challenges of a comparative approach. On examining different national approaches (Italian and English) to the management of the early modern maritime sector, it will argue that this comparison allows a privileged view into different varieties of capitalism, highlighting fundamental differences in attitudes toward wage labor and risk management that still influence different approaches to economic activities today.