Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility

by Jonathan Simon

Book Overview

For much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of and address social problems and as an incentive to reduce individual claims on collective resources.

Embracing Risk explores this new approach from a variety of perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226035182
• ISBN13: 9780226035185
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"