An Analysis of the Development of the Life Insurance Industry in the United States
Author: Herman Lynn Reese
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 140
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Author: Herman Lynn Reese
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth M. Wright
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the complex, highly developed U.S. life insurance industry, regulation emphasizes prudence and solvency and does not inhibit competition and innovation. But because there are no satisfactory measures of efficiency and profitability, it is difficult to assess industry performance.
Author: Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-08-08
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0231545428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife 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 behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets. Zelizer begins in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of the life insurance industry, a contentious chapter in the history of American business. Life insurance was stigmatized at first, denounced in newspapers and condemned by religious leaders as an immoral and sacrilegious gamble on human life. Over time, the business became a widely praised arrangement to secure a family's future. How did life insurance overcome cultural barriers? As Zelizer shows, the evolution of the industry in the United States matched evolving attitudes toward death, money, family relations, property, and personal legacy.
Author: Washington Life Insurance Company
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Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781104923211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Sharon Ann Murphy
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0801899478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance. Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers?their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product. Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference Praise for Investing in Life “A well-written, well-argued book that makes a number of important contributions to the history of business and capitalism in antebellum America.” —Sean H. Vanatta, Common Place “An intriguing, instructive history of the establishment and development of the life insurance industry that reveals a good deal about changing social and commercial conditions in antebellum America . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Author: Roscoe Carlyle Buley
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Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9781258259792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.)
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Kelley Knight
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dan Segal
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N y ) Spectator Company (New York
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022708730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive analysis of the policy conditions offered by life insurance companies in the United States and Canada. It provides useful information for anyone looking to purchase life insurance, as well as for professionals in the insurance industry. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in life insurance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.