The Appeal of Insurance explores how insurance has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays illuminate the dialectical relationship between the expansion of business and the public demand for economic and social security.

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Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9781442685888

Edition

Topic

Commerce

Subtopic

Commerce Général

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1. How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century German Proto-Insurances
2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Work on Insurance
3. The Slave’s Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property
4. Fire, Property Insurance, and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain
5. A Licence to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts
6. ‘The Rules of Prudence’: Political Liberalism and Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century
7. Honesty, Fidelity, and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England
8. Competing Appeals: The Rise of Mixed Welfare Economies in Europe, 1850–1945
9. Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain, 1900–1963
10. Five Ironies of Insurance