Betting on Lives

Betting on Lives
Author: Geoffrey Wilson Clark
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719056758

By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.

Leases for Lives

Leases for Lives
Author: D. R. Bellhouse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107111765

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.