How our days became numbered : risk and the rise of the statistical individual /

Long before the age of Big Data or the rise of today's self-quantifiers, American capitalism embraced risk --and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouk, Dan, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Temas:
Life insurance > United States > History.
Insurance > Statistical methods > History.
Insurance companies > Social aspects > United States.
Assurance > Méthodes statistiques > Histoire.
Compagnies d'assurances > Aspect social > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Insurance > Risk Assessment & Management.
Insurance companies > Social aspects
Insurance > Statistical methods
Life insurance
Lebensversicherung
Statistik
Lebenserwartung
Risikoanalyse
Rasse
Assurance-vie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Assurance > Méthodes statistiques.
Compagnies d'assurances > Aspect social.
Livförsäkring > historia.
Försäkring.
Statistisk metod.
Försäkringsbolag > sociala aspekter.
United States
USA
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Classing
  • Fatalizing
  • Writing
  • Smoothing
  • A modern conception of death
  • Valuing lives, in four movements
  • Failing the future
  • Conclusion: Numbering in layers
  • Epilogue: The cards we carry.

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