TY - BOOK ID - 5490950 TI - The appeal of insurance PY - 2010 SN - 9781442640658 1442640650 1442685883 9781442685888 1487558112 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Insurance. KW - Assurance KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - 368.00 KW - Theorieën over verzekeringen. Actuariële wetenschappen. KW - Insurance KW - History KW - E-books KW - Assurance (Insurance) KW - Coverage, Insurance KW - Indemnity insurance KW - Insurance coverage KW - Insurance industry KW - Insurance protection KW - Mutual insurance KW - Underwriting KW - Finance KW - Theorieën over verzekeringen. Actuariële wetenschappen KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5490950 AB - "Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acceptable (compensated) and unacceptable (uncompensated) risk. The Appeal of Insurance traces the ways in which insurance, over the past three centuries, has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays break new ground in insurance studies by illuminating the dialectical relationship between the expansion of the insurance business and the public demand for economic and social security."--Pub. desc. ER -