In her new book, “Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America,” MIT Professor Caley Horan examines the rise of the insurance industry into a postwar behemoth one that expanded into real estate, shaped the social geography of America through its policies, and promoted the sense that insurance, while pooling risk, boils down to a private business contract between customers and brokers.
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