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Insurance as Governance

Insurance as Governance

Essays in Canadian Working-Class History

by Diana EricsonDean Barry and Aaron Doyle
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/07/2003

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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 research on industry practices, the work penetrates the complexities of the insurance industry and demonstrates why it is such a powerful and pervasive institution. The authors advance the concept of moral risk as they consider how insurance companies partner with governments and corporations in the negotiation of economic policy.

In effect, Insurance as Governance documents liberal theory at work. It offers a major case study of liberal governance beyond the state and explores such larger issues as how insurance is increasingly liberal rather than welfarist in orientation, and how insurance is the vanguard of liberalization in governance throughout postindustrial societies. Wide-ranging in scope and original in approach, the text provides a sophisticated integration of empirical data and theoretical approaches relating to insurance, risk, governance, and security.
ISBN:
9780802085740
9780802085740
Category:
Financial services industry
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-07-2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
228x153x31mm
Weight:
0.64kg

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