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Embracing Risk
Tom Baker (Ed.)
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Description for Embracing Risk
Paperback. 'Embracing risk' offers an original approach to risk, insurance and responsibility, the provocative and wide-ranging essays demonstrate that risk has moved well beyond its origins in the insurance trade to become a central organizing principle of social and cultural life. Editor(s): Baker, Tom; Simon, Professor Jonathan. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: KFFN; LNPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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. The first part of the book focuses on the interplay between risk and insurance in various historical and social contexts. The second part examines how risk is used to govern fields ... Read more
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. The first part of the book focuses on the interplay between risk and insurance in various historical and social contexts. The second part examines how risk is used to govern fields ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226035192
SKU
V9780226035192
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99-50
About Tom Baker (Ed.)
Tom Baker is the Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut. Jonathan Simon is professor of law at the University of Miami and the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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