Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States by Viviana A. Zelizer

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States

Viviana A. Zelizer

208 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction economics history sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Life insurance―the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium―is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what beha...

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