Insuring States in an Uncertain World
towards the collaborative government of complex risks
$125.27
- Hardcover
225 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
Summary
Governing Risk: How Insurance Shapes the Global Order
Of the sectors comprising international capital markets, insurance and reinsurance have attracted relatively little attention from students of politics. New social conventions and financial instruments arising from the invention of probabilistic calculation and the discovery of risk began to spread around the world five centuries ago. Today, states and firms are harnessing the logic of insurance to address an expansive array of r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009662895 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009662899 |
| Author: | Louis W. Pauly |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 225 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Louis W. Pauly
Louis W. Pauly is a J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award in International Political Economy from the International Studies Association. Publications include Opening Financial Markets (1988), Who Elected the Bankers? (1997), The Myth of the Global Corporation (1998), and Complex Sovereignty (2005).
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