The History of Insurance Vol 5

Volume 5 LIFE [Edwin Chadwick], An Article on the Means of Insurance (1828) Thoughts on the Means of Preventing Abuses in Life Assurance Offices (1835) Augustus de Morgan, ‘On the Application of Probabilities to Life Contingencies’, ‘On the Nature of the Contract of Insurance, and on the Risks of Insurance Offices in General*, ‘On the Adjustment of the Interests of the Different Members in an Insurance Office*, An Essay on Probabilities and on their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices (1838) Anon., ‘Review of Augustus de M organ’ (1839) John A. Beaumont, Observations, Cautionary and Recommendatory, on Life Assurance (1841) Frederick Blayney, Life Assurances Societies Considered as to their Comparative Merits, &c. (1848)

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives