Managing Risk in Reinsurance. From city fires to global warming

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Comprises eleven scholarly essays by experts from a range of disciplines on the history of the international reinsurance industry. Pioneering study of an industry lightly covered by historians. Essays include: N V Haueter & G Jones, 'Risk and reinsurance'; Geoffrey Clark, 'The cultural context of insurance in the West'; Robin Pearson, 'The evolution of the industry structure'; Forrest Capie, 'The monetary and financial environment, 1860-2013'; Hans Buhlmann & Martin Lengwiler, 'Calculating the unpredictable - history of actuarial theories and practices in reinsurance'; Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, The rise and decline of treaty reinsurance. Changing roles of reinsurers as financial service providers'; Tilmann J Roder, 'From gentleman's agreement to judicial instrument. The history of contract practice and conflict resolution in reinsurance'; Milos Vec, 'Reinsurance law as an autonomous regulatory regime? Resistance to codification and avoidance of state jurisdiction in the twentieth century'; Lorraine Daston, 'What is insurable risk? Swiss Re and atomic reactor insurance'; Welf Werner, 'Natural catastrophes and their effects on reinsurance'; Roman Lechner et al, 'Continuity and change in reinsurance, 1990-2016'