Managing risk in reinsurance : from city fires to global warming

Risk and reinsurance / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones -- The cultural context of insurance in the West / Geoffrey Clark -- The evolution of the industry structure / Robin Pearson -- The monetary and financial environment, 1860-2013 / Forrest Capie -- Calculating the unpredictable : history of actuarial theories and practices in reinsurance / Hans Bühlmann and Martin Lengwiler -- The rise and decline of treaty reinsurance : changing roles or reinsurers as financial service providers / Alexandros-Andrea Kyrtsis -- From gentlemen's agreement to judicial instrument : the history of contract practice and conflict resolution in reinsurance / Tilmann J. Röder -- Reinsurance law as an autonomous regulatory regime? Resistance to codification and avoidance of state jurisdiction in the twentieth century / Miloš Vec -- What is an insurable risk? Swiss re and atomic reactor insurance / Lorraine Daston -- Natural catastrophes and their effects on reinsurance / Welf Werner -- Continuity and change in reinsurance 1990-2016 / Roman Lechner, Niels Viggo Haueter, and Lawrence Kenny