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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--

AbstractFor more than a century the processes of making academic appointments to Italian universities have regularly made news – bad news. The charges are serious: abuses of professorial power, collusion to fix outcomes in advance, favouritism to loyal followers, tolerance of mediocrity, indifference to scholarly merit. None of the many modifications to the selection rules between 1865 and 2010 has been reckoned effective in extirpating corruption and entrenching meritocracy. Drawing on participant observation of appointment processes in anthropology, I shall question the extent to which they do indeed represent a straightforward example of corruption. In particular, by considering both the formal rules and the academic community which has to use them to reproduce itself, I shall explore the possibility that the practices branded "corrupt" might more often be interpreted as efforts to reward merit rather than as conspiracies to flout it.