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

by Caley Horan

Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime, education, medicine, finance, and other social issues.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780226784380