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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers /

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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