Insurance era : risk, governance, and the privatization of security in postwar America

Insurance era : risk, governance, and the privatization of security in postwar America / Caley Horan.

"Caley Horan charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in the United States after 1945. Analyzing insurance marketing, consumption, investment, and regulation, Horan argues that insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in introducing neoliberalism to Am...

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Main Author: Horan, Caley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Insurance > United States > History > 20th century.
Insurance > Privatization > United States.
United States > History > 1945-
United States > Civilization > 1945-
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Selling "self-made" security. Insurance marketing in the wake of the New Deal ; "Facing the future's risks" : governing through education and public service
  • Part II. Investing in privatization. "Public enterprises in private hands" : investing in urban renewal ; "A mighty pump" : financing suburbanization
  • Part III. Defending discrimination. "Communities without hope" : urban crisis and insurance redlining ; The unisex insurance debate and the triumph of actuarial fairness
  • Epilogue : Imagining insurance futures.

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