History of British Actuarial Thought
Details:
- Author(s) Turnbull, Craig
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 345pp; illus
- Publisher Springer
- Place Published Cham
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Structured as follows: Part 1] 'Probability and life contingencies, 1650-1750 - the first one hundred years'; Part 2] 'Revolutionary developments between 1750 and 1810'; Part 3] 'Life from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second World War'; Part 4] A brief history of financial economics for actuaries'; Part 5] 'Life offices after the Second World War - the underwriting and management of financial market risk,1952-2004'; Part 6] 'British actuarial thought in defined benefit pensions, 1905-1997'; Part 7] 'British actuarial thought in general insurance, 1851-1994