By Jason Sears
I am fully aware of the irony of writing an article about work-life balance when I have three children under the age of 4.
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By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
In insurance, moral hazard is the idea that a party that is protected from risk will behave differently than they would if they lacked that protection.
What we know—and don’t know—about weather modeling and climate risk.
A brief summary of global risks and how they might destabilize the planet such that a doomsday scenario becomes possible.
By Matthew Powell
William of Ockham said that preference should be given to explanations with fewer elements.
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
The insurance industry has traditionally revolved around a company-centered business model in which products and intermediaries had a bigger role.
By Kurt J. Wrobel
We truly live in the information age. We have access to much more information than at any other time in human history—whether it takes the form of videos, pictures, emails, text, or just raw data.
By Shiraz Jetha
Causes of prolonged periods of high unemployment can range from economic mismanagement—such as over-expansion of money supply—to broad-based underlying structural changes.
By Carlos Fuentes
“Winning or Losing the Game?” (Contingencies, July/August 2016) introduced certain basic ideas of game theory to analyze the economics of integrated health care systems.
By Alyssa Oursler
Exactly 47 years after the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into orbit, the creatively named SpaceShipOne spacecraft became the first privately built vehicle to reach space.