{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Law","slug":"new-books-in-law-435148","podcast_index_feed_id":435148,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT9194668674","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ed004316-efde-11e8-9046-ff9798033c68/image/ae1a67b1e26a70ce7206b645623e48a3.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1864,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T20:20:35.462151+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148"},"episode":{"title":"Jake Dyble, \"Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany\" (Boydell Press, 2025)","slug":"jake-dyble-managing-maritime-risk-in-early-modern-europe-general-average-in-law-and-practice-in-seventeenth-century-tuscany-boydell-press-2025","published_at":"2026-06-15T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148/jake-dyble-managing-maritime-risk-in-early-modern-europe-general-average-in-law-and-practice-in-seventeenth-century-tuscany-boydell-press-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5062715247.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5062715247.mp3","summary":"Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergird the global economy today. A key institution of early modern risk management was General Average, a procedure used to redistribute extraordinary costs arising from a maritime venture between all financially interested parties. For example, should one merchant’s cargo be jettisoned to lighten a ship in a storm, the loss would be shared pro rata by the shipper and all the cargo-owners. A risk-sharing practice, different from the risk-shifting of marine insurance which became established relatively late, General Average is still in widespread use. In Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany (Boydell Press, 2025), Jake Dyble explores how General Average worked. It reveals the gap between General Average in law and how it worked on the ground. It shows how General Average partitioned a wide array of business costs, thereby performing a significant role in structuring maritime commerce, managing risk and promoting shipping and trade. In addition, the book discusses how far General Average was a feature of a supposedly ancient, universal, customary maritime law, and contributes to debates about the evolution of institutions in economic development. Dr Jake Dyble is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova, Italy. This interview is conducted by Dr Lewis Wade, a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bamberg. He is the author of the prize-winning Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France and can be found on Bluesky @wadehistory.bsky.social. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becomin…","meta_description":"Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergird t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3064,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-law-435148/episodes/jake-dyble-managing-maritime-risk-in-early-modern-europe-general-average-in-law-and-practice-in-seventeenth-century-tuscany-boydell-press-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148/jake-dyble-managing-maritime-risk-in-early-modern-europe-general-average-in-law-and-practice-in-seventeenth-century-tuscany-boydell-press-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}