Selling the future : community, hope, and crisis in the early history of Japanese life insurance / Ryan Moran.
Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online.
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| Summary: | Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consumers to deal with every contingency on their own, insurance industry administrators argued that their usage of statistical data enabled them to chart the predictable future for the aggregate. Through insurance, companies and the state thus offered consumers a means to a perfectible future in an era filled with repeated crises. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501773303 |
| DOI: | 10.7591/cornell/9781501773297.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 23, 2024). |