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Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

byCaley Horan

Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic influence. The argument in Insurance Era develops through economic evidence, institutional analysis, and historical examples, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the risk, governance, and the privatization of security in postwar america to larger questions in business & economics and history, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, Insurance Era preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780226784380