Life Insurance Trends at Midcentury

Life Insurance Trends at Midcentury
Author: David McCahan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512804223

Legal reserve life insurance in the United States and Canada as a modern instrument for meeting the quest for economic security, has attained size and significance unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It holds in a fiduciary capacity more than $60 billion and affects the lives of half the population as owners of life insurance and annuity contracts. Still in process of evolution, it helps to shape the pattern of life and is at the same time being shaped by its own environment. This third volume of lectures issued under the auspices of the S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education deals with significant trends and problems in life insurance at the midpoint of the twentieth century. In so doing, it bears testimony to the vitality and adaptive power of this modem device for sharing one another's burdens.

Life Insurance Housing Projects

Life Insurance Housing Projects
Author: Robert E. Schultz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512818607

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Mutually Beneficial

Mutually Beneficial
Author: Robert E. Wright
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814793975

A history of The Guardian Life Insurance company.

Investment of Life Insurance Funds

Investment of Life Insurance Funds
Author: David McCahan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512817929

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Accident and Sickness Insurance

Accident and Sickness Insurance
Author: David McCahan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512817910

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Economic Theory of Risk and Insurance

The Economic Theory of Risk and Insurance
Author: Allan H. Willett
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512808997

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement

The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement
Author: Jeffrey R. Brown
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001-11-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262261692

Annuity insurance products help protect retirees against outliving their incomes. Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that they exhaust their resources. This book examines the role that life annuities can play in helping people protect themselves against such outcomes. A life annuity is an insurance product that pays out a periodic amount for as long as the annuitant is alive, in exchange for a premium. The book begins with a history of life annuity markets during the twentieth century in the United States and elsewhere. It then explores recent trends in annuity pricing and money's worth, as well as the economic value generated for purchasers of these products. The book explains the potential importance of inflation-protected annuities and stock-market-linked variable annuities in providing more complete retirement security. The concluding chapters examine life annuities in various institutional settings and the tax treatment of annuity products.

Group Annuities

Group Annuities
Author: Kenneth Black, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1512814512

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

How Our Days Became Numbered

How Our Days Became Numbered
Author: Dan Bouk
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022656486X

Classing -- Fatalizing -- Writing -- Smoothing -- A modern conception of death -- Valuing lives, in four movements -- Failing the future.

Osiris, Volume 39

Osiris, Volume 39
Author: Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226835626

Presents a powerful new vision of the history of science through the lens of disability studies. Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces (rational, neutral, universal) scientific knowledge. This volume of Osiris places disability history and the history of science in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies, disabled scientists, and disability sciencing (engagement with scientific tools and processes). Looking beyond paradigms of medicalization and industrialization, the volume authors also examine knowledge production about disability from the ancient world to the present in fields ranging from mathematics to the social sciences, resulting in groundbreaking histories of taken-for-granted terms such as impairment, infirmity, epidemics, and shōgai. Some contributors trace the disabling impacts of scientific theories and practices in the contexts of war, factory labor, insurance, and colonialism; others excavate racial and settler ableism in the history of scientific facts, protocols, and collections; still others query the boundaries between scientific, lay, and disability expertise. Contending that disability alters method, authors bring new sources and interpretation techniques to the history of science, overturn familiar narratives, apply disability analyses to established terms and archives, and discuss accessibility issues for disabled historians. The resulting volume announces a disability history of science.