Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America 022678438X, 9780226784410, 9780226784380

Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America 9780226784410

Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry

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Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America 9780226817521

The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this

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Risk and insurance 9783030351755, 9783030351762

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Uncertain Business: Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge 9781442682849

Insurers' perceptions and decisions about uncertainty ? with potential for windfall profits as well as catastrophic

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Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk 9781501734939

As businesses search increasingly for opportunities beyond their national borders, they face the risk that political cha

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Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era 9781501729331

Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historio

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Armies Without States: The Privatization of Security 9781626372900

What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments? For individuals? Armies Without States off

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Genres of Privacy in Postwar America 9781503631908

With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of t

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Insurance and risk management 9781922042880, 1922042889

1. The nature of risk and its management -- 2. Introduction to risk management -- 3. Insurance and risk -- 4. Regulation

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The Governance of Risk 9781781907818, 9781781907801

The relationship between economic or social or political activity and risk is widely recognised at a societal level, a m

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