The Appeal of Insurance

Herausgeber: Clark, Geoffrey W; Schulenburg, J Matthias-Graf von der; Thomann, Christian; Anderson, Greg

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Produktbeschreibung

The Appeal of Insurance explores 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781487558116
• ISBN-10: 1487558112
• Artikelnr.: 69036303

Autorenporträt

Edited by Geoffrey Clark, Gregory Anderson, Christian Thomann, and J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Geoffrey Clark (State University of New York at Potsdam)
and Gregory Anderson (Salford University)
1. How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust and Expertise
in 18th-century German Proto-Insurances by Eve Rosenhaft (University
of Liverpool)
2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Work on Insurance by J.-Matthias Graf von
der Schulenburg (Leibniz University) and Christian Thomann
(University of Alabama)
3. The Slave’s Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property by
Geoffrey Clark
4. Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in
Eighteenth-Century Britain by Robin Pearson (University of Hull)
5. A License to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British
Courts by Timothy Alborn (Lehman College, City University of New
York)
6. ‘The rules of prudence’: political liberalism and life assurance in
the nineteenth century by Liz Mcfall (The Open University)
7. Honesty, Fidelity and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
England by Gregory Anderson (University of Salford)
8. Competing Appeals: the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe,
1850-1945 by Martin Lengwiler (University of Zurich)
Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain (1900-1963) by
Jerònia Pons Pons (University of Seville)
9. Five Ironies of Insurance by Aaron Oyle (University of Ottawa) and
Richard Ericson (University of Toronto)