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The papers presented here were originally presented in a session devoted to the history of reinsurance organized by Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas, University of Granada, and André Straus, Sorbonne University Paris 1, for the World Economic History Conference held in Boston in the summer of 2018.
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Rockoff, H. (2021). Introduction. In: Caruana de las Cagigas, L., Straus, A. (eds) Role of Reinsurance in the World. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74002-3_1
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