Facing the future's risks
Subtitle: studies toward predicting the unforeseen.
By: Edited by Lyman Bryson, with the collaboration of Ralph H. Blanchard [and others] With comments on insurance by Lawrence A. Fitzgerald.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Science -- United States -- History.; United States -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Report of a conference marking the 200th anniversary of the successful establishment of mutual insurance in America, New York City, 1952."
Table of contents: title: The conference on risks of the future, by L. Bryson.; title: American society, 1752-1952: comparison and contrast, by L. B. Wright.; title: Probability and statistics, by W. Weaver.; title: Physical science and the future, by L. N. Ridenour.; title: Psychology: yesterday, today, and tomorrow, by W. Dennis.; title: From spirits to mechanism: two centuries of biology, by R. W. Gerard.; title: Population trends in the United States, by F. W. Notestein.; title: American women and American values, by F. R. Kluckhohn.; title: Crime in America, two hundred years ago and today, by A. H. MacCormick.; title: Two centuries of political change, by R. M. MacIver.; title: Foundations of America's economic greatness, by D. M. Keezer.; title: Risk and insurance, by R. H. Blanchard.; title: Mutual insurance and the risks of the future, by L. A. Fitzgerald.