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Insurance as Governance is the first major sociological study of the insurance industry. It examines how the industry controls our institutions and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it thereby functions as a form of government beyond the state. Drawing on extensive ethnographic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ericson, Richard V., 1948-2007
Other Authors: Barry, Dean, Doyle, Aaron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Risk > sociologiska aspekter.
Försäkring > politiska aspekter > Nordamerika.
Försäkring > sociala aspekter > Nordamerika.
Sociologische aspecten.
Verzekeringen.
Insurance > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Assurance > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Governance, Insurance, and Moral Risks
  • Governance beyond the State
  • Insurance as Governance
  • Governance through Moral Risks
  • Governing the Insurers
  • Negotiating Political Economies
  • Corporate Governance
  • Market Misconduct
  • Governing the Insured
  • Prospects as Suspects
  • Agents of Prevention
  • Claims of Fraud.

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