Add to ORKGIn 1824 Charles Babbage was appointed actuary of the Protector Life Assurance Society of London, which led him to prepare a new set of life tables and undertake a study of the life insurance industry. He subsequently wrote his well-known book the Assurance of Lives (1826).1 This article describes the role of Charles Babbage in the development of life insurance and the reform of the life insurance industry, and the significance of the Assurance of Lives in his intellectual development
"A chronological list of publications, relating to the subjects of the rate of mortality, the doctri...
Copyrighted by American Popular Life Insurance Co.; copyright slip tipped in after t.p.In 2 parts, e...
The history of commercial law has often been written as if it were merely a product of the common la...
In 1807 the first life insurance society was established in The Netherlands. In the second half of t...
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the develo...
Binder's title.(Cont.) Hurrell, Alfred. The increasing responsibilities of the agent.--Lewis, Denslo...
Published also in the author's A familiar explanation of the nature, advantages, and importance of a...
The role of life insurance, as portrayed by the industry, is to get individuals and heirs back in fi...
This paper addresses the role of the ‘good, average man’ or the ‘man at the door’ in marketing life ...
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation...
In 1762 the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded, the first to calculate its premiums on act...
"Key to premiums for life assurance ... for all ages between 20 and 60, to insure £100, payable at d...
Daunton Martin. Clark (Geoffrey). Betting on Lives. The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695- ...
FOREWORD Actuarial science originated in England in 1792 in the early days of life insurance. Becaus...
In 1827 Charles Babbage published his Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108,000....
"A chronological list of publications, relating to the subjects of the rate of mortality, the doctri...
Copyrighted by American Popular Life Insurance Co.; copyright slip tipped in after t.p.In 2 parts, e...
The history of commercial law has often been written as if it were merely a product of the common la...
In 1807 the first life insurance society was established in The Netherlands. In the second half of t...
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the develo...
Binder's title.(Cont.) Hurrell, Alfred. The increasing responsibilities of the agent.--Lewis, Denslo...
Published also in the author's A familiar explanation of the nature, advantages, and importance of a...
The role of life insurance, as portrayed by the industry, is to get individuals and heirs back in fi...
This paper addresses the role of the ‘good, average man’ or the ‘man at the door’ in marketing life ...
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation...
In 1762 the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded, the first to calculate its premiums on act...
"Key to premiums for life assurance ... for all ages between 20 and 60, to insure £100, payable at d...
Daunton Martin. Clark (Geoffrey). Betting on Lives. The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695- ...
FOREWORD Actuarial science originated in England in 1792 in the early days of life insurance. Becaus...
In 1827 Charles Babbage published his Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108,000....
"A chronological list of publications, relating to the subjects of the rate of mortality, the doctri...
Copyrighted by American Popular Life Insurance Co.; copyright slip tipped in after t.p.In 2 parts, e...
The history of commercial law has often been written as if it were merely a product of the common la...