CES: tomorrow is Today's Uncertainty: Speculating on Futures in Early Modern Europe

Zabel will examine speculation as a theological and philosophical concept in the 16th-18th centuries and will investigate the gradual emergence of speculation as an economic and financial tool. By looking at the development of the modern concept of risk as a means of calculating and controlling economic uncertainty, she will explore cases of failed speculation in financial capitals, such as Amsterdam, Boston, London and Paris.Christine Zabel Visiting Scholar, CESSponsors: Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on EuropeContact: Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer@gmail.com