This textbook presents the fundamental economic dimensions of insurance companies and links them to managerial issues … management of the insurance business. Further, it provides a general overview of insurance undertakings and technical topics are … explained in depth. Filling an important gap in the market for textbooks on the insurance business, it is divided into four …

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 …, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy.The nature of Victorian life insurance companies meant that their customers were both …