Embracing risk : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility /

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For much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of and address social problem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baker, Tom, 1959-, Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Temas:
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Risk (Insurance)
Responsibility.
Risque > Aspect sociologique.
Risque (Assurance)
Responsabilité.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Aufsatzsammlung
Versicherung
Risico nemen.
Verantwoordelijkheid.
assurances privées > responsabilité > risque > études diverses.
Finance and Accounting.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risk, insurance, and the social construction of responsibility / Tom Baker
  • Beyond moral hazard : insurance as moral opportunity / Deborah Stone
  • Embracing fatality through life insurance in eighteenth-century England / Geoffrey Clark
  • Imagining insurance : risk, thrift, and life insurance in Britain / Pat O'Malley
  • Insuring more, ensuring less : the costs and benefits of private regulation through insurance / Carol A. Heimer
  • Rhetoric of risk and the redistribution of social insurance / Martha McCluskey
  • Taking risks : extreme sports and the embrace of risk in advanced liberal societies / Jonathan Simon
  • At risk of madness / Nikolas Rose
  • The policing of risk / Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty
  • The return of Descartes's malicious demon : an outline of a philosophy of precaution / François Ewald (translated by Stephen Utz).

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