Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and...

Die Mehrzahl britischer Gemeinden ist mit einer alternden Bevölkerung konfrontiert, wobei Küstengebiete und ländliche Räume als Altersruhesitz bevorzugt werden. Die britische Zentralregierung hat vergleichsweise früh begonnen, sich mit dieser Herausforderung zu beschäftigen und gibt den...

1.Introduction: Fair Price and Sufficient Profit -- 2.Victorian Pawnbrokers: Cancerous Worms of Ruin or the Poor Man’s Banker? -- 3.Moneylenders: Deeply Rooted Evil or Providers of Quick Cash? -- 4.Legitimate Bankers: Pawnbrokers and Moneylenders Join the Premier League -- 5.Small-loan...

The last 20 years have seen severe macroeconomic instability in Britain, with three extreme and highly damaging boom-bust cycles. Professor Tim Congdon, one of the City's most well-known commentators, has been an influential critic of successive governments' failures in economic policy...

1. The pickwick papers : a new age dawns -- 2. Somebody's luggage : the story of the study -- 3. The Old Curiosity Shop : the emergence of a nuclear legacy -- 4. A tale of two cities : an international comparison of governance over the nuclear problem -- 5. Sketches by Boz : a governance...

This report identifies effective strategies to tackle skills imbalances in the United Kingdom. It provides an assessment of practices and policies in the following areas: the collection and use of information on skill needs to foster a better alignment between skills acquisition and labour...

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their origins in Europe during the seventeenth and...