Mutual Insurance

Marco H. D. Leeuwen
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Marco H. D. Leeuwen: Utrecht University

Chapter 1 in Mutual Insurance 1550-2015, 2016, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the Western world we have forgotten how to be insured without state or commercial insurers. Yet mutual or micro-insurance has a long and venerable history. In the non-Western world, mutual insurance is becoming increasingly important. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance from 1550 to the present, examining provisions for burial, illness, unemployment, old age, and widowhood insurance. In this chapter we set out our guiding questions: How and why did it work? and Can it still work today?

Keywords: Welfare State; Trade Union; Mutual Fund; Moral Hazard; Adverse Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53110-0_1

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