Date of Award
6-1931
Level of Access Assigned by Author
Open-Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Economics
Abstract
It is the purpose of this thesis to trace the development of risk bearing by insurance from the earliest times, to the period when the modern institution of insurance may fairly be said to have become established. The thesis will not cover in its scope the history of insurance, nor the history of any particular period, but will rather survey each period studied, searching for new developments of insurance theory, and consider particularly those contributions that represent distinct advances in development.
Contents: Preface; Pre-Grecian Contributions; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Middle Ages and Renaissance; Period of Final Development, 1500-1720; Bibliography.
Recommended Citation
Magee, John Henry, "The Early Development of Insurance" (1931). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3336.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3336