Search for dissertations about: "insurance history"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words insurance history.

  2. 16. The emergence of routine enforcement of international investment law : Effects on investment protection and development

    Author : Love Rönnelid; Iain Cameron; Steffen Hindelang; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Investment law; enforcement; foreign direct investment FDI ; power; investment insurance; bilateral investment treaties BITs ; World Trade Organisation WTO ; Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MIGA ; International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID ; development; developmental state; regulatory space; development strategies; law and development; New York Convention; Aron Broches; Ibrahim Shihata; Wilhelm Röpke; Friedrich Hayek; rule of law; good governance; Public International Law; Folkrätt;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how the enforcement of international investment law became so powerful. It does so by tracing the different legal developments that have enabled the strength of the present regime. In this respect, the two aims of providing investment protection and that of fostering economic development are examined. READ MORE

  4. 17. Diagnosing burn-out : An Anthropological Study of a Social Concept in Sweden

    Author : Torbjörn Friberg; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociology of enterprise; Sociology of labour; Sociology; Unhappy person; Transient phenomenon; Anthropology at home; Social problems and welfare; national insurance; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; företagssociologi; Arbetslivssociologi; Sociologi; Sociala problem; social välfärd; socialförsäkring; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This is a thesis about the genesis, use, and decline of burn-out as a social concept in Sweden. The burn-out concept is treated as social because its classification of people interacts with the people classified. As a consequence of this, burn-out is studied in a dynamic holistic way, as an entirely social system within Swedish society. READ MORE

  5. 18. A Swedish Dilemma : Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance

    Author : Matthias Abelin; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rule of law; Sickness benefits; Disability benefits;

    Abstract : Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-authoritarian and potentially abusive of groups with weak political representation. In this dissertation, this Swedish dilemma is explored in an anthropology of law tradition, with disputing practices as an inroad to an understanding of law as culture. READ MORE

  6. 19. The epidemiology of low back pain in the general population and after motor vehicle collisions : population-based investigations

    Author : John David Cassidy; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Epidemiology; cohort studies; low back pain; incidence; prevalence; prognosis; natural history.;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to describe the prevalence, incidence and course of adult low back pain (LBP) in the general population and after traffic collisions. The objective of Paper I was to determine prevalence of adult LBP and to document its severity. READ MORE

  7. 20. Prognostic factors for whiplash associated disorders

    Author : Eric Rydman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Disability and chronic pain secondary to low- speed vehicle collisions has been a known condition since the nineteenth century. Today, whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) are the most common personal injuries reported to insurance companies after motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). READ MORE