Author: Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Insurance, Life
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain)
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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List of members issued with v. 35-46 with separate paging.

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Category : Casualty insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1562

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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1366

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Author: Sharon Ann Murphy
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801899478
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance. Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers?their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product. Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference Praise for Investing in Life “A well-written, well-argued book that makes a number of important contributions to the history of business and capitalism in antebellum America.” —Sean H. Vanatta, Common Place “An intriguing, instructive history of the establishment and development of the life insurance industry that reveals a good deal about changing social and commercial conditions in antebellum America . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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