1. Introduction: Social treatment of catastrophic risk

   • Kenneth E. Scott

   EditorialNotes Pages: 99 - 100

2. Opening remarks: Stanford conference on social treatment of catastrophic risk

   BriefCommunication Pages: 101 - 102

3. The theory of risk-bearing: Small and great risks

   • Kenneth J. Arrow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 111

4. The economics of catastrophes

   • Richard Zeckhauser

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 140

5. The complex politics of catastrophe economics

   • Roger G. Noll

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 146

6. Alternative institutional responses to asbestos

   • W. Kip Viscusi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 170

7. Mitigating disaster losses through insurance

   • Howard Kunreuther

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 187

8. Difficulties in making implicit government risk-bearing partnerships explicit

   • Edward J. Kane

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 199

9. A rational approach to pricing of catastrophe insurance

   • Weimin Dong
   • Haresh Shah
   • Felix Wong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 218

10. The government, the market, and the problem of catastrophic loss

    • George L. Priest

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 237

11. Global risk management

    • M. Elisabeth Paté-cornell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 255

12. Union carbide's Bhopal incident: A retrospective

    • Michael J. Fischer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 269

13. Global financial markets, derivative securities, and systemic risks

    • Myron S. Scholes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 286

14. Catastrophic responses to catastrophic risks

    • Richard A. Epstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 308