Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961Routledge, 2019 M09 30 - 304 páginas Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. |
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... economic fab- ric , enters into almost every transaction , and yet the average individual has never acquired more than the vaguest knowledge of its workings .... [ I ] nsurance men seem to delight in keeping their operations a sort of ...
... economic impact on American society and automobile insurers felt their full brunt . The frequency and severity of traffic accidents , along with the efforts to limit them and secure compensation for their victims , affected insurance ...
... economic , political , and cultural trends and some of the major issues that accompa- nied the emergence of a motor vehicle - based system of transportation and the automobile insurance business in the 1910s and 1920s . It also sketches ...
... economies. This reality is what makes the history of the rise of Erie Insurance relevant to some of the fundamental problems confronting business today. By the end of the 1980s economic growth in most western European states and Japan ...
... economic theorist to address the subject, and he developed a detailed theory of entrepreneurship. Although his ideas ... Economic Development (1911), the keys to economic progress. "The carrying out of new combinations," according to ...
Contenido
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Getting Ahead | 59 |
The Romance of Claims | 81 |
Push This Thing Along The Rise of Erie Insurance | 99 |
The Challenge of the Depression | 127 |
Adversity and Innovation | 163 |
Sales World War II and Managing the Northwest Territories | 197 |
Underwriting And Problems of Growth | 231 |
Questions of Strategy and Rewards | 265 |
Epilogue Samuel P Black Jr Entrepreneurship and Erie Insurance 19611997 | 305 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Appendices | 335 |
Index | 349 |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel Patton Black,John Paul Rossi Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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