Extent: | Online-Ressource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatzsammlung |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1. Embracing Risk; Part One: Toward a Sociology of Insurance and Risk; 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility; 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity; 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England; 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain; 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance; 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance; Part Two: Risk(s) beyond Insurance 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies9. At Risk of Madness; 10. The Policing of Risk; 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution; Index; |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-03517-8 ; 9786612537387 ; 978-1-282-53738-5 ; 978-0-226-03518-5 ; 978-0-226-03519-2 |
Classification: | Soziale Sicherheit |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012683263