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The appeal of insurance /
"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 acc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
Ã2010
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 / Jero|nia Pons Pons
- Five ironies of insurance / Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson.