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Leases for Lives – Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in 18th-Century England, by David R. Bellhouse, CambridgeCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 xii, 261 pp; ISBN:9781107111769

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Chris Lewin
Chris Lewin*
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Annals of Actuarial Science , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 214 - 216
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© Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 2018 

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