Insurance Era by Caley Horan - 9780226833293

Insurance EraRisk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America\nAuthor(s): Caley Horan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226833293, 978-0226833293\nSynopsis\nCharts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life.\n\n Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industrys political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime, education, medicine, finance, and other social issues. Caley Horans remarkable book charts the social and economic power of private insurers since 1945, arguing that these institutions actuarial practices played a crucial and unexpl.