Dealing in Uncertainty
Insurance in the Age of Finance
$339.01
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2023
Summary
Insurance is an important - if still poorly understood - mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life.
This book conducts an in-depth examination of one of the largest and longest-established private insurance industries in Europe: British life insurance. In doing so, it draws on over 40 oral history interviews to trace how the sector is changed since the 1970s, a period characterised by rampant financialisation and neoliberalisation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529221350 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529221358 |
| Author: | Arjen van der Heide |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Imprint: | Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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“Dealing in Uncertainty makes a major contribution to the history and sociology of insurance. Van der Heide masterfully explains the financialization of the British life insurance industry and the concurrent transformation of the actuarial profession as a process that replaced calculation and expertise with models and markets.” Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
About The Author
Arjen van der Heide
Arjen van der Heide is Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research. He previously obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
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