Risky business
By: produced and directed by Charles Bruce
Contributors: Jay, Peter, 1937-; British Broadcasting Corporation; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Economic history; Banks and banking; History
Other titles: Risky business : ; Wealth-building, 450 to 1497; Road to riches (Television program)
Description: Describes how, as recession enfolded Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, the economic axis shifted to the Islamic world, where the concept of risk management was born. Explores the Muslim commercial empire in Egypt, the reemergence of trade in northwestern Europe with the waning of the Dark Ages, and the rise of banking and sophisticated accounting methods among the Italian states. Discusses subjects ranging from centuries-old financial records preserved in Cairo's Ben Ezra synagogue to Venetian maritime trade.
Notes: "A BBC production"--Container.

Originally broadcast as an episode of the BBC television program The road to riches on July 30, 2000.

Additional directing, David Strahan ; camera, Colin Clarke ... et al. ; film editor, Christine Pancott ; series editor, Barbara Want ; narrator, David Strahan.

Host, Peter Jay.

DVD-R.