When All Else Fails

Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

David A. Moss

  • 2004 Kulp-Wright Book Award, Sponsored by the American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.

Preface

1. Introduction

2. A Primer on Risk and Its History

3. Limited Liability

4. Money

5. Bankruptcy

6. Workers' Insurance

7. Social Security

8. Product Liability Law

9. Security for All

10. The Foundations of American Risk Management Policy

Epilogue: Risk, Knowledge, and the Veil of Ignorance

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: When All Else Fails

David A. Moss is John G. McLean Professor, Harvard Business School.