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Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

Caley Horan

Culture, humanities & social science

Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

By Caley Horan, associate professor of history

University of Chicago Press · 2021

Horan shows that "the rise and dissemination of neoliberal values ... were the result of a project to unsocialize risk, shrinking the state's commitment to providing support." This has had the effect of laying burdens on people who are often the least capable of bearing them.

From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.