The appeal of insurance / edited by Geoffrey Clark ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Geoffrey Wilson, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurance--History.

Insurance.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2010]

Summary:

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. The Appeal of Insurance traces the ways in which insurance, over the past three centuries, has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays break new ground in insurance studies by illuminating the dialectical relationship between the expansion of the insurance business and the public demand for economic and social security.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781442640658

1442640650

OCLC:

565924323