Abstract

Reinsurance is often characterised as a business built on personal relationships, goodwill and mutual trust. However, at different times in its history observers have warned that technological and other changes threaten the survival of normative practices in the industry. This article investigates what was involved in the micro-business of reinsurance and how that business changed since its early days. It raises questions about the characterization of normative reinsurance practice and about the role of memory in the assessment of continuity and change.

中文翻译：

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规范实践，叙事谬误？国际再保险及其历史

摘要

再保险通常被描述为建立在个人关系、商誉和相互信任基础上的业务。然而，在其历史的不同时期，观察家们警告说，技术和其他变化威胁着行业规范实践的生存。本文调查了再保险微型业务涉及的内容以及该业务自早期以来发生了怎样的变化。它提出了关于规范再保险实践的特征以及记忆在评估连续性和变化中的作用的问题。