Books Available for Review in the JRI (updated 11-1-11)  To request a book, contact cather@psu.edu
Title	Author	Year	Pages	Publisher	ISBN
Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management	J. Hampton	2009	308	American Management Association	978-0-8144-1492-7
Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, & the Development of Capital Markets	P. Hoffman, G. Postel-Vinay & J. Rosenthal	2007	263	Belknap Press of Harvard University Press	978-0-674-03636-9
Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy	J. Quigley, L. Rosenthal	2008	242	Berkeley Public Policy Press	978-0-87772-427-8
The Future of Insurance Regulation in the United States	M. Grace, R. Klein (editors)	2009	232	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-0286-3
Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance	H. Aaron, L. Burman	2009	282	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-0125-5
Government Failure Versus Market Failure (Under Review)	C. Winston	2006	130	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-7880-6
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events & Wild Cards in Global Politics	F. Fukuyama	2007	198	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-2990-7
Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks	D. Dickson, M. Hardy, & H Waters	2009	493	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-11825-5
Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data	P. de Jong & G. Heller	2009	196	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-87914-9
Prospect Theory for Risk & Ambiguity	P. Wakker	2010	503	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-74868-1
Risk and Precaution	A. Randall	2011	260	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-75919-9
The Decline of the Traditional Pension	G. Mackenzie	2010	279	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-51847-5
Strategic Risk Management Practice	T. Andersen & P. Schroder	2010	245	Cambridge University Press	978-0-521-13215-2
Actuarial Models: The Mathematics of Insurance	V. Rotar	2007	633	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-586-3
Statistics & Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science	P. Boland	2007	351	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-695-1
Handbook of Solvency for Actuaries & Risk Managers	A. Sandstrom	2011	1055	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-4398-2130-5
Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling	C. Bluhm, L. Overbeck, & C. Wagner	2010	364	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-58488-992-2
The Banking Crisis Handbook	G. Gregoriou (Editor)	2010	569	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-4398-1853-4
Monte Carlo Methods & Models in Finance and Insurance	R. Korn, E. Korn, G.Kroisandt	2010	470	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-4200-7618-9
Operational Risk Modelling & Management	C. Franzetti	2011	389	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-4398-4476-2
Pension Fund Risk Management	M. Micocci, G. Gregoriou, G. Masala	2010	728	Chapman & Hall/CRC	978-1-4398-1752-0
Earthscan Reader on Risk	R. Lofstedt, A. Boholm	2009	320	Earthscan	978-1-84407-687-1
Uncertainty & Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Under Review)	G. Bammer, M. Smithson (editors)	2008	382	Earthscan	978-1-84407-474-7
Insurance Ethics for a More Ethical World	P. Flanagan, P. Primeaux, W. Ferguson	2007	279	Elsevier	978-0-7623-1333-4
The Liability Century: Insurance & Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11	K. Abraham	2008	274	Harvard University Press	978-0-674-02768-8
Pensions in the Health & Retirement Study	A. Gustman, T. Steinmeier, N. Tabatabai	2010	367	Harvard University Press	978-0-674-04866-9
Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis	H. Luft	2010	318	Harvard University Press	978-0-674-05736-4
Protecting the Poor: A Microinsurance Compendium	C. Churchill (Editor)	2006	654	International Labour Office & Munich Re Foundation	978-92-2-119254-1
Fixing Global Finance	M. Wolf	2008	230	Johns Hopkins Press	978-0-8018-9048-2
Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations	D. Simchi-Levi	2010	239	MIT Press	978-0-262-01474-8
At War with the Weather (Under Review)	H. Kunreuther, E. Michel-Kerjan	2009	416	MIT Press	978-0-262-01282-9
The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies	V. Galasso	2007	257	MIT Press	978-0-262-07273-1
Measuring & Managing Federal Financial Risk	D. Lucas	2010	269	National Bureau of Economic Research	978-0-226-49658-0
Social Security Programs & Retirement Around the World	J. Gruber & D. Wise (editors)	2010	369	National Bureau of Economic Research	978-0-226-30948-4
The Microeconomics of Insurance	R. Rees & A. Wambach	2008	166	now Publishers	978-1-60198-108-0
The Law & Economics of Public Health	F. Sloan & L. Chepke	2007	162	now Publishers	978-1-60198-074-8
Annuity Markets	E. Cannon & I. Tonks	2008	295	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-921699-4
Corporate Decision-Making with Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Performance & Risk Management	L. Oxelheim, C. Wihlborg	2008	244	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-533574-3
Fundamentals of Private Pensions (9th ed.)	D. McGill, K. Brown, J. Haley, S. Schieber, M. Warshawsky	2010	818	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-954451-6
Modelling Longevity Dynamics for Pensions & Annuity Business	E. Pitacco, M. Denuit, S. Haberman, & A. Olivieri	2009	395	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-954727-2
Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management	M. Power	2008	248	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-954880-4
Understanding Financial Crises	F. Allen & D. Gale	2009	303	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-925142-1
Global Perspectives on Insruance Today: A Look at National Interest Versus Globalization	C. Kempler, M. Flamee, C. Yang, & P. Windels	2010	326	Palgrave Macmillan	978-0-230-10477-8
Insurance Intermediation: An Economic Analysis of the Information Services Market	M. Eckardt	2007	246	Physica-Verlag	978-3-7908-1939-7
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System	D. Callahan	2009	267	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-14236-4
The Known, the Unknown, & the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management	F. Diebold, N. Doherty, & R. Herring (editors)	2010	380	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12883-2
Anticipating Correlations: A New Paradigm for Risk Management	R. Engle	2009	154	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-11641-9
When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them	T. Ghilarducci	2008	374	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-11431-6
The Economic Theory of Annuities	E. Sheshinski	2008	163	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-13305-8
The Theory of Corporate Finance (Under Review)	J. Tirole	2006	639	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12556-2
The Irrational Economist	E. Michel-Kerjan,  P. Slovic (editors)	2010	352	Public Affairs	978-1-58648-780-5
Modern Actuarial Risk Theory Using R	R. Kaas, M. Goovaerts, J. Dhaene, & M. Denuit	2008	381	Springer	978-3-540-70992-3
New Frontiers in Enterprise Risk Management	D. Olson & D. Wu	2008	236	Springer	978-3-540-78641-2
Non-Life Insurance Pricing with Generalized Linear Models	E. Ohlsson & B. Johansson	2010	174	Springer	978-3-642-10790-0
Semi-Markov Risk Models for Finance, Insurance, & Reliability	J. Janssen, R. Manca	2007	422	Springer	978-0-387-70729-7
Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System	S. Davidson	2010	288	Stanford Business Books	978-0-8047-6196-3
The Economics of Natural & Unnatural Disasters (Forthcoming)	W. Kern (editor)	2010	142	Upjohn Institute for Employment Research	978-0-88099-362-3
Mass Torts in a World of Settlement	R. Nagareda	2007	317	U. Chicago Press	978-0-226-56760-0
The Medical Malpractice Myth	T. Baker	2007	214	U. Chicago Press	978-0-226-03649-6
The Risks of Financial Institutions	M. Carey, R. Stulz	2007	520	U. Chicago Press	978-0-226-09285-0
Calculating Political Risk	C. Althaus	2008	304	U. New South Wales Press	978-1-921410-53-6
Operational Risk Management: A Case Study Approach to Effective Planning & Response	M. Abkowitz	2008	277	Wiley	978-0-470-25698-5
Actuarial Modelling of Claim Counts	M. Denuit, X. Marechal, S. Pitrebois, J. Walhin	2007	356	Wiley	978-0-470-02677-9
Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences	S. Jackman	2009	564	Wiley	978-0-470-01154-6
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions (3rd Ed.)	S. Klugman, H. Panjer, G. Willmot	2008	726	Wiley	978-0-470-18781-4
The Economics of Risk and Insurance	S. Seog	2010	343	Wiley-Blackwell	978-1-4051-8552-3