Probable justice : risk, insurance, and the welfare state /: risk, insurance, and the welfare state. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel Z. Friedman.
• Authors: Friedman, Rachel Z
• Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The Origins of Risk and the Growth of Insurance Insurance: A Brief Primer The Early History of Modern Insurance Probability Theory and the Doctrine of Aleatory Contracts Life Insurance and Probabilistic Justice Chapter 2: Probabilistic Justice and the Beginnings of Social Insurance Precursors to Social Insurance The First Social Insurance Plans: Mutual Insurance Writ Large Chapter 3: The Promise of Probability The Practical Aims of Late-Classical Probability Between Individual Choice and Social Responsibility Social Insurance in Theory and in Practice Chapter 4: The Collectivization of Risk and the Early Welfare States The Rise of the Collective View of Chance Risk in the Early Welfare States Chapter 5: The Egalitarian Welfare State and the Ambiguities of Insurance The Egalitarian Welfare State Emerges Subjective Probability and the Personalization of Chance The Egalitarian Welfare State without Probability The Fate of Social Insurance in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 361.973; Social security -- United States; Welfare state -- United States; Risk -- United States; Probabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226731094
• Related ISBNs: 9780226730769; 9780226730936
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