Investing in life : insurance in antebellum America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding mortality in Antebellum America: the search for a stable business model
- Selecting risks in an anonymous world: the development of the agency system
- Lying, cheating, and stealing versus the court of public opinion: preventing moral hazard and insurance fraud
- The public interest in a private industry: life insurance and the regulatory-promotional state
- Protecting women and children "in the hour of their distress": targeting the fears of an emerging middle class
- Targeting the aspirations of an emerging middle class: the triumph of mutual life insurance companies
- Securing human property: slavery, industrialization, and urbanization in the upper south
- Acting "in defiance of providence"? The public perception of life insurance
- Seeking stability in an increasingly competitive industry: the creation of the American life underwriters' convention
- Insuring soldiers, insuring civilians: the civil war as a watershed for the life insurance industry
- The perils of success during the postbellum years.