World Insurance - The Evolution of a Global Risk Network

Zusatztext For the first time, historians working across a range of subjects from finance and economic modernization to social welfare and even religion have access to a systematic account of how the insurance industry has transformed the risk environment faced by billions around the world and how that process has knit together the economies and fortunes of far flung societies and cultures ... Whether the post-2008 financial debacle will induce a return to a more stringent regulatory environment and a new generation of statist approaches to insurance is a question that must await a sequel to Borscheid and Haueters imposing and standard-setting World Insurance. Informationen zum Autor Peter Borscheid is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the University of Marburg. He has published numerous monographs on the history of science and technology, the history of the textile industry, the standard of living, the history of old age, and old-age pension, the cultural history of acceleration. He led several projects and international working groups on insurance history. He also served as a member of the German government commission "The situation of the older generation in the Federal Republic of Germany".Niels Viggo Haueter is Head of Swiss Reinsurance Company's Corporate History team and the company's historical archives. He serves as an academic advisor on insurance and reinsurance history to the European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt. Klappentext This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean....

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• Authors: Peter (EDT)/ Haueter Borscheid
• Assisted by: Peter Borscheid (Editor), Peter (Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the Philipps-University of Marburg) Borscheid (Editor), Borscheid Peter (Editor), Niels Viggo Haueter (Editor), Niels Viggo (Corporate History Haueter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2012
• EAN: 9780199657964
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965796-4
• No. of pages: 784
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, HISTORY / Social History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, Economic history, International business, Insurance & actuarial studies, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Insurance and actuarial studies, Industrialisation and industrial history