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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53110-0

ISBN: 978-1-137-53109-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 31, 2016

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Chapter 1Mutual Insurance

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 1 –15

[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...
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Chapter 2The Era of the Guilds: Mutual Insurance 1550–1800

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 17 –82

[This chapter traces mutual insurance, mainly that provided by the guilds in the Netherlands, from the earliest date the sources allow (1550) to the dissolution of the guilds (c. 1800). It traces the number of schemes, their type (for burial, sickness, old age, or widowhood), and their nature in...
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Chapter 3The Age of the Friendly Societies: Mutual Insurance in the Nineteenth Century

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 83 –165

[The end of the guilds marked the beginning of mutual insurance on a voluntary basis through Friendly Societies. These grew enormously in scope of coverage, until, around 1900, the majority of the population were insured for the costs of burial. Almost all other forms of micro-insurance, too,...
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Chapter 4The Rise and Decline of Modern Trade Union Insurance, 1900–65

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 167 –217

[Between the fin de siècle and the zenith of the welfare state lay not only two world wars and a Great Depression, but also the rise and decline of micro-insurance provided by modern trade unions. Unions kept alive working models of large-scale micro-insurance and, indeed, developed the only...
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Chapter 5New Initiatives, 1965–2015

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 219 –246

[While still a beacon of security, the light shed by the Dutch welfare state dimmed a little after having reached its zenith. It was beset by both financial problems and classic insurance problems. Commercial life and health insurers regained lost ground, but so has the mutual insurance...
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Chapter 6Principles and Practices of Mutual Insurance, 1550–2015

van Leeuwen, Marco H. D.

Pages: 247 –279

[This chapter summarizes the track record of mutual insurance from 1550 to the present. We ask: How did micro-insurance work? Why did it work? Under what conditions can it still work today? In answering these questions we consider issues of continuity and discontinuity over the centuries,...

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