Download or read book Observations on the Expectations of Lives the increase of mankind the influence of great towns on population and particularly the state of London with respect to healthfulness and number of inhabitants In a letter to Benjamin Franklin written by Richard Price and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on the Expectations of Lives the Increase of Mankind the Influence of Great Towns on Population and Particularly the State of London with Respect to Healthfulness and Number of Inhabitants written by Richard Price and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of Benjamin Franklin written by Edwin Wolf and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.
Download or read book Probable Justice written by Rachel Z. Friedman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same time, it affects nearly every citizen and permeates daily life—in the form of pension, disability, and unemployment benefits, healthcare and parental leave policies, and more. At the core of that disjunction is the question of how we as a society decide who should get what benefits—and how much we are willing to pay to do so. Probable Justice traces a history of social insurance from the eighteenth century to today, from the earliest ideas of social accountability through the advanced welfare state of collective responsibility and risk. At the heart of Rachel Z. Friedman’s investigation is a study of how probability theory allows social insurance systems to flexibly measure risk and distribute coverage. The political genius of social insurance, Friedman shows, is that it allows for various accommodations of needs, risks, financing, and political aims—and thereby promotes security and fairness for citizens of liberal democracies.
Download or read book A Familiar Explanation of the nature of Assurances upon Lives To which are added the principles c of Seventy London Assurance Offices and an extensive bibliographical catalogue of works on the subject written by Lewis POCOCK and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronological List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Doctrine of Chances and the Rate of Mortality Annuities Reversions Marine and Fire Insurances and Life assurance written by Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar Explanation of the Nature Advantages and Importance of Assurances Upon Lives to which are Added the Principles Terms and Tables of Seventy London Assurance Offices and an Extensive Bibliographical Catalogue of Works on the Subject written by Lewis Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronological List of Books and Pamphlets written by Lewis Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty s Apostle Richard Price His Life and Times written by Paul Frame and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723–91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of his work as ‘the foremost production of human understanding that this century has afforded us’. A supporter of the American and French Revolutions, Price corresponded with the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Mirabeau and Condorcet. In November 1789 he publicly welcomed the start of the French Revolution and thus inspired not only Edmund Burke to write his rebuttal in Reflections on the Revolution in France, but also the Revolution Controversy, ‘the most crucial ideological debate ever carried on in English’. Price also brought to world attention the Bayes-Price Theorem on probability, which is the invisible background to so much in modern life, and wrote a fundamental text on moral philosophy. Yet, despite all this and more, he remains little-known beyond academia, a situation that this biography helps to rectify. Liberty’s Apostle tells his life story through his published works and, fully for the first time, his now published correspondence with a host of eighteenth century celebrities. The life revealed is of a truly remarkable Welshman and, as Condorcet remarked, of ‘one of the formative minds’ of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.
Download or read book Torchbearer of Freedom written by Carl B. Cone and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bronze inscription in the public library of Bridgend calls Richard Price "Philosopher. Preacher. Actuary. Cfaill Dynolryw" [Friend of Humanity]. He was all these and something more. Son of a Welsh Presbyterian of Calvinistic leaning, Richard Price was educated for the ministry. That he belonged in the best of Dissenting tradition was exhibited at an early age in his own interest in Arianism, an interest fostered by the academy at Pentwyn where he studied. Here he met the works of Samuel Clarke, which thoroughly aroused the ire of his father. Richard Price did not cringe in the face of hostile public opinion when events temporarily brought his principles into unpopularity. More than most of his liberal contemporaries, he was truly a "torchbearer of freedom." His first book was an attack on the empiricism of Locke, however, Richard Price intended no denial of other aspects of Locke's thought. An abiding faith in human reason, in free will, and in the value of education and science, with the consequent distrust of tyranny of any variety, all show that Price was not in revolt against the leading philosophical trends of his age. Rather he sought to place these values on a firm moral basis. In association with many of the great spirits of the age, Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, John Howard, the Younger Pitt, and Turgot, among others, he moved from moral philosophy to mathematics (an area in which he made many advances in statistics) and from there to political economy. His contribution in this latter respect was twofold. There was his enormous influence in drawing attention to the problem of the national debt of England and suggesting the Sinking Fund scheme that Pitt finally introduced. And there was his interest in and encouragement of the independence of America. In 1778 the Continental Congress voted to invite Price to take up American citizenship and offered to pay his expenses if he chose to move. The life of Richard Price is an example of the power of the human spirit to shape the course of history.
Download or read book Vital Accounts written by Andrea A. Rusnock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.
Download or read book The Measurement of Population Growth Methods and Result written by P. Kuczynski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Papers of James Madison written by James Madison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. 16 Mar. 1751-16 Dec. 1779 -- v. 2. 20 Mar. 1780-23 Feb. 1781 -- v. 3. 3 Mar.-31 Dec. 1781 -- v. 4. 1 Jan.-31 July 1782 -- v. 5. 1 Aug.-31 Dec. 1782 -- v. 6. 1 Jan.-30 Apr. 1783 -- v. 7. 3 May 1783-20 Feb. 1784 -- v. 8. 10 Mar. 1784-28 Mar. 1786 -- v. 9. 9 Apr. 1786-24 May 1787, with suppl. 1781-1784 -- v. 10. 27 May 1787-3 Mar. 1788 -- v. 11. 7 Mar. 1788-1 Mar. 1789 -- v. 12. 2 Mar. 1789-20 Jan. 1790, with suppl., 24 Oct. 1775-24 Jan. 1789 -- v. 13. 20 Jan. 1790-31 Mar. 1791 -- v. 14. 6 Apr. 1791-16 Mar. 1793 -- v. 15. 24 Mar. 1793-20 Apr. 1795 -- v. 16. 27 Apr. 1795-27 Mar. 1797 -- v. 17. 31 Mar. 1797-3 Mar. 1801, with suppl., 22 Jan. 1778-9 Aug. 1795.
Download or read book William Morgan written by Nicola Bruton Bennetts and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be the first full length biography of William Morgan, a founding figure in the development of actuarial science and the insurance business in the UK. This biography explains William Morgan’s role in developing the mathematics that underpin the money management of pension funds. It focuses also on the experiment in which Morgan created an X-ray tube, and examines his outspoken political views and turbulent private life. As well as exploring his public life, this biography uses unpublished family letters to open a window on Morgan’s private life.
Download or read book Richard Price Philosopher and Apostle of Liberty written by Roland Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the University of London Including the Libraries of G Grote and A De Morgan mainly Compiled by T Nichols written by University of London and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the University of London written by University of London (Gran Bretaña). Library and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
