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Embracing Risk

The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility

Embracing Risk( )
Editor: Baker, Tom
Simon, Jonathan
ISBN:978-0-226-03518-5
Publication Date:Feb 2002
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $101.00
Book Description:

For much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of and address social problems and as an incentive to reduce individual claims on collective resources. Embracing Risk explores this new approach from a variety of perspectives. The first part of the book...
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Book Details
Pages:329
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General
Business & Economics / Insurance / Risk Assessment & Management
Psychology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.624 x 0.917 x 0.09 Inches
Book Weight:1.25 Pounds



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