Uncertain Business Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge Aaron Doyle, Diana Ericson

Insurers' perceptions and decisions about uncertainty? with potential for windfall profits as well as catastrophic losses? create crises in insurance availability and provoke new forms of inequality and exclusion. Hence, while the insurance industry is a central bulwark against uncertainty, ins...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Doyle, Aaron (Author)
Other Authors: Ericson, Diana (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 2016, [2016]
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