Insurance as Governance /

Insurance as Governance / / Dean Barry, Aaron Doyle, Diana Ericson.

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Insurance as Governance is the first major sociological study of the insurance industry. It examines how the industry controls our institutions and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it thereby functions as a form of government beyond the state.Drawing on extensive ethnographic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Barry, Dean,
Doyle, Aaron,
Ericson, Diana,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2003
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Governance, Insurance, and Moral Risks
  • 1. Governance beyond the State
  • 2. Insurance as Governance
  • 3. Governance through Moral Risks
  • Part II: Governing the Insurers
  • 4. Negotiating Political Economies
  • 5. Corporate Governance
  • 6. Market Misconduct
  • Part III: Governing the Insured
  • 7. Prospects as Suspects
  • 8. Agents of Prevention
  • 9. Claims of Fraud
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index

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