| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-Title; Title Page; Imprints Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mathematics and Property in the Seventeenth Century; 3 Edmond Halley's Life Table; 4 Halley's Impact or Lack of It; 5 De Moivre and His Early Influence; 6 Mathematicians as Consultants; 7 Mathematicians and Early Life Insurance Companies; 8 The Annuity Bubble of the 1760s and 1770s; 9 The Aftershocks of the Bubble, Their Impact on Life Annuities; 10 Developments in the Life Insurance Industry in the Later Eighteenth Century; 11 A Return to Roots; 12 Conclusion. |
| Summary |
This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.
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Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.
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Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrVJRVjjPt7rw8wykFKd |
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Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtGXhkDt3JFydCDRfRYfq |
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Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Probabilities -- History -- 18th century.
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Mathematics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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MATHEMATICS -- Essays. |
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MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus. |
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MATHEMATICS -- Reference. |
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Intellectual life |
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Mathematicians |
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Mathematics |
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Probabilities |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bellhouse, David R. Leases for lives. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107111769 1107111765 (OCoLC)982092199 |
| ISBN |
110852253X (electronic bk.) |
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9781108522533 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108524025 (electronic bk.) |
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1108524028 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108518062 |
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1108518060 |
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9781316282229 |
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1316282228 |
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1107530393 |
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9781107530393 |
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9781107111769 |
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1107111765 |
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9781107530393 (paperback) |
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1108506143 |
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9781108506144 |
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1108515088 |
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9781108515085 |
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1108516572 |
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9781108516570 |
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