Last week this got finally published! .The book is based on my PhD research, which started nearly 7 years ago when I first set foot in Edinburgh as a master student and became interested in a topic I never expected I would become interested in. 1/6.

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RT @bzs_bzs: Looking forward to reading this!.

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@allartmarkets @MatthiasThiema3 @Nathan__Coombs @charomki @JuliusKob @NataschaZwan Whilst I'm at it, I've also recently published this paper with @sebastianmkohl, putting the emergence of Alpine and Maritime insurance traditions into a long-term perspective, and questioning the relation between private insurance and welfare states.

For being able to write this book, I owe a great debt of gratitude to many people, including @allartmarkets @MatthiasThiema3 @Nathan__Coombs @charomki @JuliusKob @NataschaZwan and many others some of whom are not on here. 6/6.

If you want to know more about how insurance in Britain fared in the age of finance, and the cultural shifts and conflicts that ensued within the insurance business, you could check out this book (in your library; or when you don't have library access, PM me) 5/6.

The application of modern finance theory in the insurance business therefore came with forms of conflict that were oftentimes latent but sometimes also rather manifest, as evidenced by several "stormy" actuarial meetings and heated debate described in the book. 4/6.

More than just ways of calculating economic value and risk, these rationalities come with different implications for what insurance is and does, whose interests should be taken most at heart, and what role professional groups such as the actuarial profession should play. 3/6.

It describes financialization of insurance 'in the making': the emergence of (and conflicts between) competing rationalities in the insurance business. One rooted in the tradition of actuarial expertise; the other in modern finance theory as it emerged in the 1970s onwards. 2/6.