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The Appeal of Insurance.
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 eco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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