Dealing in Uncertainty

Insurance in the Age of Finance
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2135-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Insurance is an important – if still poorly understood – mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life.

This book conducts an in-depth examination of one of the largest and longest-established private insurance industries in Europe: British life insurance. In doing so, it draws on over 40 oral history interviews to trace how the sector has changed since the 1970s, a period characterized by rampant financialization and neoliberalization.

Combining insights from science and technology studies and economic sociology, this is an unprecedented study of the evolution of insurance practices and an invaluable contribution to our understanding of financial capitalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heide, Arjen van der

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Life Insurance in the Age of Finance

Chapter 2: Financialization, Quantification and Evaluation

Chapter 3: Shifting Boundaries between Insurance and Finance

Chapter 4: Actuaries Going on a Random Walk

Chapter 5: ‘Authors of Their Own Misfortune’

Chapter 6: ‘Taking Account of What the Market Has To Say’

Chapter 7: Managing Risk in Insurance

Chapter 8: The Long Road to Solvency II (and Back Again?)

Chapter 9: De-Risking Pensions, Managing Assets

Chapter 10: Financial Evaluation and the Future of Insurance Society

References

Über Autor(innen)

Heide, Arjen van der
Arjen van der Heide is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University. He previously obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

Arjen van der Heide is Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research. He previously obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.