Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School,Neils Haueter, Head of Swiss Re's Corporate History unit, Swiss Reinsurance Company
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He has written extensively on the history of globalization. His recent books include Multinationals and Global Capitalism (OUP 2005) and Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (OUP, 2010). He is co-editor of the journal Business History Review, and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the Royal Historical Society.
Niels Viggo Haueter is Head of Swiss Re's Corporate History unit. He serves as Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt and is a guest lecturer at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Together with Peter Borscheid he edited WorldInsurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk Network published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
1. ntroduction: Risk and Reinsurance, Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones 2. The Cultural Context of Insurance in the West, Geoffrey Clark 3. The Evolution of the Industry Structure, Robin Pearson 4. The Monetary and Financial Environment, 1860-2013, Forrest Capie 5. Calculating the Unpredictable: History of Actuarial Theories and Practices in Reinsurance, Hans Buhlmann and Martin Lengwiler 6. The Rise and Decline of Treaty Reinsurance: Changing roles of Reinsurers as Financial Service Providers, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis 7. From Gentlemen's Agreement to Judicial Instrument: The History of Contract Practice and Conflict Resolution in Reinsurance, Tilmann Roder 8. Reinsurance Law as an Autonomous Regulation Regime? Resistance to Codification and Avoidance of the Courts in the Twentieth Century, Milos Vec 9. What is an Insurable Risk? Swiss Re and Atomic Reactor Insurance, Lorraine Daston 10. Natural Catastrophes and their Effects on Reinsurance, Welf Werner 11. Continuity and Change in Reinsurance 1990-2016, Roman Lechner, Lawrence Kenny, and Niels Viggo Haueter
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