{"product_id":"probable-justice-risk-insurance-and-the-welfare-state-9780226730936","title":"Probable Justice  Risk Insurance and the Welfare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Friedman powerfully brings together three traditions of thought: theory on risk and probability, ethical principles of distributive justice, and political theory on the purpose of social insurance or the welfare state. Her image of civil society as a great mutual insurer with coercive power will reorient political thinking on the welfare state.\"--James Franklin, author of The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal \"Friedman's thoughtful and thought-provoking study reveals how diverse conceptions of probability have always been morally tinged. Whether framed as prudential individualism, frequentist solidarity, or a subjective bet, how we calculate risk turns out to have far-reaching consequences for how we think about what the state owes its citizens and citizens owe each other.\"--Lorraine Daston, coauthor of How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality \"Probable Justice?advances a strikingly original--and quite brilliant--argument about the common duality of probability as a philosophical concept and social insurance as a political expedient, both of which Friedman reveals are essentially 'Janus-faced.'\"--William P. Deringer, author of Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age \"Probable Justice is a brilliant synthesis of the history of insurance and theories of probability. It combines social theory (e.g., social insurance and the welfare state) with an outstanding discussion of the ambiguities in probability theory. One of the most illuminating books I have encountered on the influence of probabilistic ideas on theories of justice.\"--Morton Horwitz, author of The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Origins of Risk and the Growth of Insurance   Insurance: A Brief Primer  \u003cbr\u003e The Early History of Modern Insurance  \u003cbr\u003e Probability Theory and the Doctrine of Aleatory Contracts  \u003cbr\u003e Life Insurance and Probabilistic Justice  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Probabilistic Justice and the Beginnings of Social Insurance   Precursors to Social Insurance  \u003cbr\u003e The First Social Insurance Plans: Mutual Insurance Writ Large  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Promise of Probability   The Practical Aims of Late-Classical Probability  \u003cbr\u003e Between Individual Choice and Social Responsibility  \u003cbr\u003e Social Insurance in Theory and in Practice  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Collectivization of Risk and the Early Welfare States   The Rise of the Collective View of Chance  \u003cbr\u003e Risk in the Early Welfare States  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Egalitarian Welfare State and the Ambiguities of Insurance   The Egalitarian Welfare State Emerges  \u003cbr\u003e Subjective Probability and the Personalization of Chance  \u003cbr\u003e The Egalitarian Welfare State without Probability  \u003cbr\u003e The Fate of Social Insurance in the Twentieth Century and Beyond  \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  \u003cbr\u003e Notes  \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534920810839,"sku":"9780226730936","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226730936.jpg?v=1755858042","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/probable-justice-risk-insurance-and-the-welfare-state-9780226730936","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}