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Two types of Life Insurance Management in the Nineteenth Century AmericaYuichirou Tamura1986 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 1-26
Published: October 30, 1986
Released on J-STAGE: November 06, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article deals with some important problems in the life insurance business in the late Nineteenth Century America, as follows;
1. Fundamental structure of life insurance business.
2. Expansive character of the American life insurance business, tipified by Henry B. Hyde, the Equitable Life. His aim was, first of all, to satisfy his own entrepreneurial wants, higher ranked than life insurance purpose.
3. Tontine Policy, introduced by Hyde, was not only an ideal solution of the problem with which he was confronted, but also gave him a weapon to push his Equitable to the top of the industry.
4. Manegement of Jacob Greene, the Connecticut Mutual, was in a marked contrast to that of Hyde. Being an early advocate of “Humane Life Value Theory”, and stubborn opponent of the Tontine, he had a distinct idea of life insurance business. His management, true to his principle, was inferior to Hyde, in quality. that is, growth of business, but much more superior in quality, both cost and returns to policyowners.View full abstractDownload PDF (2225K) -
Chikage Hidaka1986 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 27-52
Published: October 30, 1986
Released on J-STAGE: November 06, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSOldham, the world's largest center of cotton spinning, is also known as the leading center of the early joint-stock company in Britain. From the 1870s to the 1900s, a large number of spinning companies, known as “the Oldham limiteds, ” sprang up in this town, bringing about an unprecedented expansion of the town's spindleage. This paper attempts to reappraise these new companies in the context of the subsequent decline of the British cotton industry in this century.
The analysis is focused on the financial problem. Probably, one of the most important characters of the limiteds was in their financial system. The system, as a matter of fact, opened a new source of finance and made possible the emergence of a huge additional spinning capacity, but at the same time it influenced the corporate strategy of the limiteds in such a way as to make them less competitive.
The question of why did the decline of the British industry occur is the author's major concern. And this paper is a first step toward clarifying the nature of a mature economy and the factors that affected the British industry's adaptability to changes in the economic environment.View full abstractDownload PDF (2597K) -
[in Japanese]1986 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 53-75
Published: October 30, 1986
Released on J-STAGE: November 06, 2009
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[in Japanese]1986 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 76-88
Published: October 30, 1986
Released on J-STAGE: November 06, 2009
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