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).
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