The Appeal of Insurance

by Gregory Anderson

Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acceptable (compensated) and unacceptable (uncompensated) risk.

The Appeal of Insurance traces the ways in which insurance, over the past three centuries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487558112
• ISBN13: 9781487558116
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"