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HELLWEGE,P., The Past, Present, and Future of Tontines. Berlin 2018.

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HELLWEGE, Phillip (Hrsg.),

The Past, Present, and Future of Tontines. A Seventeenth Century Financial Product and the Development of Life Insurance. 1. Aufl. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2018.

16 x 23 cm. 413 S. (Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law – Studien zur vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts, 2). ISBN 9783428156153.

Phillip Hellwege

Introduction

1. The Framework for the Development of Tontines

Christian Rietsch and Georges Gallais-Hamonno

Lorenzo Tonti

Georges Gallais-Hamonno and Christian Rietsch

Financial Engineering in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Tontines in England, France, and Ireland

Robin Pearson

The Socio-Economic Setting for Developing Tontines from the 17th to the 19th Centuries

2. A Comparative Legal History of Tontines

Sophie Delbrel

Tontines in France from the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic

Boudewijn Sirks

Tontines in the Dutch Republic and the Early Kingdom (1670–1869)

John MacLeod

Tontines in England and Scotland

Martin Sunnqvist

Tontines in Scandinavia

Phillip Hellwege

Tontines in German-Speaking Territories

Kent McKeever

Tontines in Portugal – Nicholas Bourey’s Paleo-Tontine of 1641

Maura Fortunati

Tontines in Italy

Rafael Illescas

Tontines in Spain

Kent McKeever

The Evolution of the Tontine in North America

Marcelo Nasser

Tontines in Latin America

Jan Halberda

Tontines in Poland

Balázs Tokey

Tontines in Hungary

Tamara Korchagina

The Russian Experience with Tontine Insurance

3. The Present and Future of Tontines

Moshe A. Milevsky

What Can Tontine Design of the Future Learn from Its Past?

Jan-Hendrik Weinert

Tontines in Europe Today

Jonathan Barry Forman and Michael J. Sabin

Tontines in the Western World Today

Salvatore Mancuso

Tontines and other Forms of Rotating Credit Associations in Africa

4. Comparative Analyses

Jerònia Pons Pons

A Comparative Analysis from the Perspective of Economic History

Phillip Hellwege

A Comparative Analysis from the Perspective of Legal History

Order Number: 6137VB

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