Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance
Author:   Arjen van der Heide (Leiden University)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Edition:   Abridged edition
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9781529221350


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Arjen van der Heide (Leiden University)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
Edition:   Abridged edition
ISBN:  

9781529221350


ISBN 10:   1529221358
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Life Insurance in the Age of Finance Chapter 2: Financialization, Quantification and Evaluation Chapter 3: Shifting Boundaries between Insurance and Finance Chapter 4: Actuaries Going on a Random Walk Chapter 5: ‘Authors of Their Own Misfortune’ Chapter 6: ‘Taking Account of What the Market Has To Say’ Chapter 7: Managing Risk in Insurance Chapter 8: The Long Road to Solvency II (and Back Again?) Chapter 9: De-Risking Pensions, Managing Assets Chapter 10: Financial Evaluation and the Future of Insurance Society References

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"""Dealing in Uncertainty makes a major contribution to the history and sociology of insurance. Van der Heide masterfully explains the financialization of the British life insurance industry and the concurrent transformation of the actuarial profession as a process that replaced calculation and expertise with models and markets."" Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School"


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Arjen van der Heide is Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research. He previously obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

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