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Leases for Lives: Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England
by David R. Bellhouse
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Hardback. New. This important work illuminates the early modern roots of two very contemporary concerns, real estate values and pension/annuity funding. It places in historical context the work of an active group of eighteenth-century mathematicians, and gives a resonant example of the vagaries of 'technology transfer' from mathematical sciences to commercial activities.
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- Title
- Leases for Lives: Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England
- Author
- David R. Bellhouse
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 5
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1107111765
- ISBN 13
- 9781107111769
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- This edition first published
- 2017
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