Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.12 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959-> |
Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance) Responsibility |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-226-03517-4
9786612537387 1-282-53738-5 |
Classificazione | MB 3250 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455566503321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.12 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959-> |
Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance) Responsibility |
Soggetto non controllato | culture, cultural, insurance, responsibility, insurer, 20th century, industrial, industrialized, social, problems, welfare, worker, labor, laborer, workplace, workforce, risk, risky, compensation, claims, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, economics, finance, contextual, institutional, mental health, wellness, safety, law, england, britain |
ISBN |
0-226-03517-4
9786612537387 1-282-53738-5 |
Classificazione | MB 3250 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780994503321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Embracing risk : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.12 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959-> |
Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance) Responsibility |
ISBN |
0-226-03517-4
9786612537387 1-282-53738-5 |
Classificazione | MB 3250 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806281503321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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