Extent: | 1 online resource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatzsammlung |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Contributors -- -- Introduction -- -- 1. How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century German Proto-Insurances -- -- 2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Work on Insurance -- -- 3. The Slave’s Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property -- -- 4. Fire, Property Insurance, and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- -- 5. A Licence to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts -- -- 6. ‘The Rules of Prudence’: Political Liberalism and Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century -- -- 7. Honesty, Fidelity, and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England -- -- 8. Competing Appeals: The Rise of Mixed Welfare Economies in Europe, 1850–1945 -- -- 9. Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain, 1900–1963 -- -- 10. Five Ironies of Insurance In English |
ISBN: | 978-1-4426-8588-8 ; 978-1-4426-4065-8 |
Other identifiers: | 10.3138/9781442685888 [DOI] |
Classification: | Banken, Versicherungen |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482491