The rise and fall of public insurance? A historical genealogy of alternative economic models in the insurance sector from the 18th century to the present day.

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While there are good studies on public business models in banking, housing, and public services, the “state moment” in the life, non-life, and reinsurance industries remains in the shadow of the classical branches of the welfare state.

Faced with the uninsurable risks posed by multiple global crises, heterodox approaches to government intervention in the financial sector have nevertheless attracted renewed interest in recent years.

For this seminar, the PARI chair will welcome, a doctoral student at the University of Basel and Sebastian Kohl, Professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin, they will share their work on a historical genealogy of alternative economic models in the insurance sector from the 18th century to the present day (PER).