Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers /

• Main Author: Van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Subjects: Finance.; Insurance.; Finance > History.; Social history.; Welfare economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Financial History.; Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning.; Social History.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non...