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  • How Our Days Became Numbered

    Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual

    de Dan Bouk ...
    "It is hard to write engagingly about insurance and the history of statistics. Bouk has succeeded in this feat . . . a very ambitious book." ― The American Historical ReviewLong before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"—and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring ... Leer más

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  • Democracy's Data

    The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

    de Dan Bouk ...
    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data.The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them ... Leer más

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    Democracy's Data

    The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

    de Dan Bouk ...
    Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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    The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them.In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of ... Leer más

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    Some years ago, The Economist carried a lead editorial, ‘The puzzling failure of economics’. The frank admission was provoked by the publication of a new edition of Paul Samuelson’s Economist. The editorial concluded that it ‘is not a failure of economics, in fact, but of modern [neo-classical] economics’.The authors argue there is nothing puzzling about this failure. They document how the ... Leer más

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  • Freaks of Fortune

    The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

    de Jonathan Levy ...
    Until the nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. ... Leer más

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  • Morals and Markets

    The Development of Life Insurance in the United States

    Series series Legacy Editions
    Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the ... Leer más

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  • Contract Law

    Rules, Theory, and Context

    de Brian H. Bix ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    To gain a deep understanding of contract law, one needs to master not only the rules and principles of the field, but also its underlying theory and justification, and its long and intricate history. This book offers an accessible introduction to all aspects of American contract law, useful to both first-year law students and advanced contract scholars. The book is grounded on up-to-date ... Leer más

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  • American Capitalism

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    Series series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But an ... Leer más

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  • Banking on Freedom

    Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal

    Series series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women.Banking on Freedom ... Leer más

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  • DEATH OF CONTRACT

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  • Speculation

    A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

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  • Between Slavery and Capitalism

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