Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England
by
David R. Bellhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Many historians of insurance have commented on the disconnect between the rise of English life insurance companies in the early eighteenth century and the mathematics behind the sound pricing of life insurance products that was developed at about the same time. Insurance and annuity promoters typically...