Christopher Kingston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Kingston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Kingston |
| SIGNATURE | KINGSTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Leonard, A. B., London marine insurance 1438–1824 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022). Pages 217 + tables 6 + figures 3 + appendix. £95/$140 hardback. Leonard, A. B., London marine insurance 1438–1824 (…
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Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America
Over the last fifteen years, scholars have documented the rapid development of the U.S. financial system between the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Civil War. To date, most of this work has concentrated on commercial banks and securities markets while neglecting the roles early marine, fire, life, and other insurers played in American financial and economic development. This article seeks to redress the balance by presenting new…
Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?
Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Quasi-War with France, 1795-1801
Until the 1790s marine insurance in the United States was organized by brokers and underwritten by private individuals. Beginning in 1792, however, the private underwriters had to compete with newly formed marine insurance corporations. Each organizational form had advantages and disadvantages. This article uses archival data from a private underwriter and a corporation to study how the competition between these different organizational forms was…
Comparing theories of institutional change
This article compares a variety of theoretical approaches to conceptualizing institutional change. Our goal is neither to discover the ‘best’ theory, nor to attempt to build a new one. Rather, we wish to compare how the theories we consider agree or differ with respect to the causes, process, and outcomes of institutional change. Some of the theories we discuss emphasize the deliberate creation of institutions through the political process, while…
Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
This article examines how the marine insurance industry evolved in Britain and America during its critical formative period, focusing on the information asymmetries and agency problems that were inherent to the technology of overseas trade at the time, and on the path-dependent manner in which the institutions that addressed these problems evolved. I argue that the market was characterized by multiple equilibria because of a potential lemons prob…
Capital social e instituciones en el proceso de cambio económico
Las instituciones han pasado a ocupar un lugar destacado en la agenda de investigación de los economistas y los politólogos en las últimas décadas. Al mismo tiempo, la literatura del capital social se ha desarrollado de forma intensa desde la publicación del libro de Robert Putnam Making Democracy Work en 1993. En este trabajo perfilamos ambas tendencias para sostener la relevancia de los procesos de cambio institucional sobre las bases teóricas …
Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
This article examines how the marine insurance industry evolved in Britain and America during its critical formative period, focusing on the information asymmetries and agency problems that were inherent to the technology of overseas trade at the time, and on the path-dependent manner in which the institutions that addressed these problems evolved. I argue that the market was characterized by multiple equilibria because of a potential lemons prob…
Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Quasi-War with France, 1795-1801
Until the 1790s marine insurance in the United States was organized by brokers and underwritten by private individuals. Beginning in 1792, however, the private underwriters had to compete with newly formed marine insurance corporations. Each organizational form had advantages and disadvantages. This article uses archival data from a private underwriter and a corporation to study how the competition between these different organizational forms was…
Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America
Over the last fifteen years, scholars have documented the rapid development of the U.S. financial system between the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Civil War. To date, most of this work has concentrated on commercial banks and securities markets while neglecting the roles early marine, fire, life, and other insurers played in American financial and economic development. This article seeks to redress the balance by presenting new…
Capital social e instituciones en el proceso de cambio económico
Las instituciones han pasado a ocupar un lugar destacado en la agenda de investigación de los economistas y los politólogos en las últimas décadas. Al mismo tiempo, la literatura del capital social se ha desarrollado de forma intensa desde la publicación del libro de Robert Putnam Making Democracy Work en 1993. En este trabajo perfilamos ambas tendencias para sostener la relevancia de los procesos de cambio institucional sobre las bases teóricas …
Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
This article examines how the marine insurance industry evolved in Britain and America during its critical formative period, focusing on the information asymmetries and agency problems that were inherent to the technology of overseas trade at the time, and on the path-dependent manner in which the institutions that addressed these problems evolved. I argue that the market was characterized by multiple equilibria because of a potential lemons prob…
Comparing theories of institutional change
This article compares a variety of theoretical approaches to conceptualizing institutional change. Our goal is neither to discover the ‘best’ theory, nor to attempt to build a new one. Rather, we wish to compare how the theories we consider agree or differ with respect to the causes, process, and outcomes of institutional change. Some of the theories we discuss emphasize the deliberate creation of institutions through the political process, while…
Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?
Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Quasi-War with France, 1795-1801
Until the 1790s marine insurance in the United States was organized by brokers and underwritten by private individuals. Beginning in 1792, however, the private underwriters had to compete with newly formed marine insurance corporations. Each organizational form had advantages and disadvantages. This article uses archival data from a private underwriter and a corporation to study how the competition between these different organizational forms was…
Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America
Over the last fifteen years, scholars have documented the rapid development of the U.S. financial system between the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Civil War. To date, most of this work has concentrated on commercial banks and securities markets while neglecting the roles early marine, fire, life, and other insurers played in American financial and economic development. This article seeks to redress the balance by presenting new…
Leonard, A. B., London marine insurance 1438–1824 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022). Pages 217 + tables 6 + figures 3 + appendix. £95/$140 hardback. Leonard, A. B., London marine insurance 1438–1824 (…
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Economics (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 works) · Finance (2 works)