The appeal of insurance:

"Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acc...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto Univ. of Toronto Press 2010
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Zusammenfassung:"Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acceptable (compensated) and unacceptable (uncompensated) risk
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
How to tame chance : evolving languages of risk, trust, and expertise in eighteenth-century German proto-insurances / Eve Rosenhaft -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's work on insurance / J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg and Christian Thomann -- The slave's appeal : insurance and the rise of commercial property / Geoffrey Clark -- Fire, property insurance, and perceptions of risk in eighteenth-century Britain / Robin Pearson -- A licence to bet : life insurance and the Gambling Act in the British courts / Timothy Alborn -- "The rules of prudence" : political liberalism and life assurance in the nineteenth century / Liz McFall -- Honesty, fidelity, and insurance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Gregory Anderson -- Competing appeals : the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe, 1850-1945 / Martin Lengwiler -- Employers and industrial accident insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 / Jerònia Pons Pons -- Five ironies of insurance / Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson
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