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The Appeal of Insurance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Appeal of InsuranceDDC classification:
  • 368.009
LOC classification:
  • HG8027.A67 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century German Proto-Insurances -- 2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Work on Insurance -- 3 The Slave's Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property -- 4 Fire, Property Insurance, and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 5 A Licence to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts -- 6 'The Rules of Prudence': Political Liberalism and Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century -- 7 Honesty, Fidelity, and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England -- 8 Competing Appeals: The Rise of Mixed Welfare Economies in Europe, 1850-1945 -- 9 Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 -- 10 Five Ironies of Insurance.
Summary: The Appeal of Insuranceexplores how insurance has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays illuminate the dialectical relationship between the expansion of business and the public demand for economic and social security.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century German Proto-Insurances -- 2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Work on Insurance -- 3 The Slave's Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property -- 4 Fire, Property Insurance, and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 5 A Licence to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts -- 6 'The Rules of Prudence': Political Liberalism and Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century -- 7 Honesty, Fidelity, and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England -- 8 Competing Appeals: The Rise of Mixed Welfare Economies in Europe, 1850-1945 -- 9 Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 -- 10 Five Ironies of Insurance.

The Appeal of Insuranceexplores how insurance has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays illuminate the dialectical relationship between the expansion of business and the public demand for economic and social security.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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