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# Top-ranked in Insurance Law category Comprehensive risk management history In-depth legal & policy analysis When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

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## Summary

> ⚖️ When government takes the wheel, risk meets its match!

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## Key Features

- • **Concise & Engaging:** A crisply edited narrative that keeps you informed without overwhelming detail.
- • **Academic & Practical:** Perfect for professionals and public administrators seeking a rigorous yet accessible resource.
- • **Master the Art of Risk:** Explore government’s pivotal role as the ultimate risk manager across multiple sectors.
- • **Legal Insights Unveiled:** Gain sharp, well-researched perspectives on bankruptcy, social security, and liability laws.
- • **Historical Depth Meets Modern Relevance:** Understand foundational risk management concepts that illuminate today’s policy debates.

## Overview

‘When All Else Fails’ offers a meticulously researched exploration of government’s role as the ultimate risk manager, blending historical context with legal and policy analysis. Ideal for professionals and scholars, this book delivers clear, engaging insights into how public institutions shape risk management frameworks across industries.

## Description

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager [Moss, David A.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

Review: A wide-ranging, top-notch book - This author has a lot to say about the topic, reviewing governmental trials, errors and developments in several settings: corporate limited liability, money, bankruptcy law, workers' insurance, social security, and product liability, among others. Each area is well-researched and crisply explained. The author moves at a good pace: the book is informative without bogging down, and is well-edited. My knowledge in these areas is significantly deepened, particularly in their legal dimensions, and I see debates and rationales of various players, private and governmental, weaving through the narratives, which I had been unaware of. For example, bankruptcy at an early stage (in a few colonies) appears to have been intended as an orderly and fair means for creditors to get at assets, and less in its modern form of a device more oriented to relief of debtors. Many such facets of the topic are set forth here, as they unfolded through time. This book came out around 2002, so sadly, I am left to apply its (clear and well-laid-out) ideas to the massive risk management events that have happened lately. But this book gives me a platform from which to consider such things as the Dodd-frank legislation and PPACA. I am grateful to the author for staying in a disciplined way on the topics, and not overstaying or getting lost in digressions. In my quest to learn a historical background to risk management, I previously read "Freaks of Fortune," which started with sea voyage insurance and walked through slavery and other 19th century institutions which are (arguably) risk management attempts. I like these sorts of books, which take a broad view of what arrangements in society may be considered "risk management," from family arrangements to various customs, to major legislation, and go in a scholarly and methodical way through the pertinent history.
Review: Excellent book! - Provides excellent discussion material for a Masters level course in risk management I teach for public administrators. It outlines some interesting perspectives.

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #898,272 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #28 in Insurance Law Business Law #258 in Microeconomics (Books) #343 in Government & Business |
| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 11 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wide-ranging, top-notch book
*by P***O on June 27, 2013*

This author has a lot to say about the topic, reviewing governmental trials, errors and developments in several settings: corporate limited liability, money, bankruptcy law, workers' insurance, social security, and product liability, among others. Each area is well-researched and crisply explained. The author moves at a good pace: the book is informative without bogging down, and is well-edited. My knowledge in these areas is significantly deepened, particularly in their legal dimensions, and I see debates and rationales of various players, private and governmental, weaving through the narratives, which I had been unaware of. For example, bankruptcy at an early stage (in a few colonies) appears to have been intended as an orderly and fair means for creditors to get at assets, and less in its modern form of a device more oriented to relief of debtors. Many such facets of the topic are set forth here, as they unfolded through time. This book came out around 2002, so sadly, I am left to apply its (clear and well-laid-out) ideas to the massive risk management events that have happened lately. But this book gives me a platform from which to consider such things as the Dodd-frank legislation and PPACA. I am grateful to the author for staying in a disciplined way on the topics, and not overstaying or getting lost in digressions. In my quest to learn a historical background to risk management, I previously read "Freaks of Fortune," which started with sea voyage insurance and walked through slavery and other 19th century institutions which are (arguably) risk management attempts. I like these sorts of books, which take a broad view of what arrangements in society may be considered "risk management," from family arrangements to various customs, to major legislation, and go in a scholarly and methodical way through the pertinent history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book!
*by J***. on December 9, 2012*

Provides excellent discussion material for a Masters level course in risk management I teach for public administrators. It outlines some interesting perspectives.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ but a good read. Lots of great
*by C***T on July 28, 2016*

Very academic, but a good read. Lots of great research

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