World Insurance
The Evolution of a Global Risk Network
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 August 2012
- ISBN 9780199657964
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages752 pages
- Size 253x182x46 mm
- Weight 1458 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Since the end of the eighteenth century, the insurance industry has cast a safety net around the world, first in the British Isles and then further afield, irrespective of cultural, political and ideological divides. Unlike previous publications on insurance history, which tend to discuss the development of national markets or individual companies, this book focuses on the creation of networks across borders from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day.
Distinguished international economic historians draw upon examples from twenty countries across the continents to demonstrate how what was called the 'British system' of risk management spread out in waves, and describes the forces that made this possible - first among them migration from Europe and international trade. The book explores the economic, political, religious, and cultural obstacles that blocked the path of this European invention - not only religious law and traditional practices, but above all protectionism, inflation, and political ideologies. It examines the process of transformation through which modern insurance supplanted traditional forms of protection against perils and risks and was able to keep on offering new ways of dealing with the risks of modern life. As well as discussing primary insurance, it also considers the role played by reinsurance, without which the losses arising out of today's natural and man-made disasters would be immeasurably greater. Finally, taking modern-day disaster scenarios as examples, the book shows just what the limits of insurability are and what risks worldwide networks entail.
For the first time, historians working across a range of subjects from finance and economic modernization to social welfare and even religion have access to a systematic account of how the insurance industry has transformed the risk environment faced by billions around the world and how that process has knit together the economies and fortunes of far flung societies and cultures ... Whether the post-2008 financial debacle will induce a return to a more stringent regulatory environment and a new generation of statist approaches to insurance is a question that must await a sequel to Borscheid and Haueters imposing and standard-setting World Insurance.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Europe
Europe: Overview
United Kingdom: Pioneering insurance internationally
Germany: Insurance, expansion and setbacks
France: Insurance and the French financial networks
Switzerland: Insurance and the need to export
Italy: Building on a long insurance heritage
Spain: International influence on the domestic insurance market
Russia: Early expansion, state involvement, and re-emergence of the insurance industry
Part II. North America
North America: Overview
Canada: Taking life insurance abroad
USA: The international attraction of the US insurance market
Part III. Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa: Overview
South Africa: Leading African insurance
Part IV. Middle East & Northern Africa
Middle East & Northern Africa: Overview
Maghreb: Naturalising insurance in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
United Arab Emirates: Economic boom and insurance
Part V. Far East and Pacific
Far East and Pacific: Overview
India: From a colonial outpost to a leading market
China: The indigenisation of insurance
Japan: The role of insurance in the rapid modernisation of Japan
Korea: Insurance in a tiger market
Australia and New Zealand: A tradition continued creating a domestic insurance market
Part VI. Latin America and Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean: Overview
Brazil: The resilience of the Brazilian insurance market
Mexico: A history of the insurance industry in Mexico
Argentina: The changing fortunes of the Argentinean insurance market
