Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101671

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170101671

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Funded Activity Summary

Cultures of risk-taking in Renaissance Italy. This project aims to provide a cultural history of the development and nature of pre-modern capitalism that moves beyond outmoded models of linear, rational progression. The project will look at Renaissance Italy, a node in the development of modern capitalism, and analyse how merchants and gamblers took financial risks. By using risk as a category of analysis to examine the interconnections between rational and irrational decision making in sixteenth-century commerce and gambling, the project aims to understand the development of attitudes and values still prevalent today. The project will write irrationality into the history of modern capitalism.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2017

End Date: 31-07-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $157,655.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History of Economic Thought | Historical Studies | European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Europe's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |

Other Keywords

European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Historical Studies | History of Economic Thought | Understanding Europe's Past

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