Author: Henry S. WashburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Something about the Business of Life Assurance in France
Author: Henry S. WashburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Morals and Markets
Author: Viviana A. Rotman ZelizerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets. Zelizer begins in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of the life insurance industry, a contentious chapter in the history of American business. Life insurance was stigmatized at first, denounced in newspapers and condemned by religious leaders as an immoral and sacrilegious gamble on human life. Over time, the business became a widely praised arrangement to secure a family's future. How did life insurance overcome cultural barriers? As Zelizer shows, the evolution of the industry in the United States matched evolving attitudes toward death, money, family relations, property, and personal legacy.
Life Insurance Fact Book
Author: The Insurance Times
Author: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries
Author: Handbook of International Insurance
Author: J. David CumminsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387341633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Handbook of International Insurance: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies analyzes key trends in the insurance industry in more than 15 important national insurance markets that represent over 90 percent of world insurance premiums. Well-known academics from Europe, the Americas and Asia examine their own national insurance markets, including the competitive structure, product and service innovations, and regulatory developments. The book provides academics and executives with an unprecedented range of information about today’s insurance markets. This book also provides important 'new' information on the evolution of the financial sector worldwide and comprehensive chapters on reinsurance, Lloyd’s of London, alternative risk transfer, South and East Asian insurance markets, and European insurance markets. Setting the stage is an overview chapter by the editors focusing on overall conclusions on globalization.
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