"Bouk's wonderful new book is a timely history of the roots of our contemporary situation. He explores how the American life insurance industry transitioned from its late-nineteenth century aspirations of predicting fate to an early-twentieth century effort to master death. It is not only a history of actuarial science, but also a cultural history of capitalism - and a surprisingly gripping tale for an industry that many, preteens included, are liable to find dull. Bouk narrates the story through a cast of ...
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"Bouk's wonderful new book is a timely history of the roots of our contemporary situation. He explores how the American life insurance industry transitioned from its late-nineteenth century aspirations of predicting fate to an early-twentieth century effort to master death. It is not only a history of actuarial science, but also a cultural history of capitalism - and a surprisingly gripping tale for an industry that many, preteens included, are liable to find dull. Bouk narrates the story through a cast of characters who traipse through graveyards, assemble massive databases, and investigate corporate malfeasance. Statistics about life and death, he demonstrates, are anything but boring; rather, they are animated by and occasion moral debates about family, race, and the future of the nation."-- "Journal of Cultural Economy"
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