Recommended Reading for Risk Managers

Books

A discussion on RiskNet of books and reading materials that are recommended for those interested in Risk Management included the following books:

• "Avoiding Surprises" by Fred Church
• "The Invisible Bankers," by Andrew Tobias
• "Managing Risk," by Vernon Grose
• "The Third Wave," by Alvin Toffler
• "The Elements of Style," by Strunk and White
• "Fourth Generation Risk Management" by Jay Deragon
• ARM Texts published by the Insurance Institute of America
• The FC&S Manual
• "The Additional Insured Book" by Malecki & Gibson (IRMI)
• "The ADA Handbook"
• "Property & Casualty Insurance" by Philip Gordis (Rough Notes)
• "Cost of Risk" (Unirisk AB, Sweden, FAX 46 8 661 7970)
• "Risk Management Manual" by E.J. Leverett of Univ. of Georgia
• "Buying & Renewing Canadian Group Insurance Plans" 1995, CCH Canadian, Ltd.
• "101 Ways to Cut Business Insurance Costs" by Gibson, McIntyre & Bregman (IRMI)
• "The Litigation Explosion" by Walter Olson
• "Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences" by Peter Huber
• "Risk Management and Insurance" Williams & Heins (McGraw-Hill)
• "Essentials of Risk Management and Insurance" John Hampton (AMACOM)
• "Practical Self-Insurance" Boyce-Smith & Pearce, Risk Mgt. Press
• "Practical Risk Management" Dave Warren & others
• "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" Peter L. Bernstein
• "Risk," by John Adams, University College London Press, 1995
• "Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management," by Vlasta Molak, CRC Lewis, Boca Raton, FL, 1997

Periodicals

Periodicals recommended (a key contributor here is Felix Kloman) were:

• Business Insurance
• The Economist
• International Risk Management
• Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
• Professional Safety
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Management Magazine
• Risk Management Reports
• Risk Policy Report
• Treasury & Risk Management
• World Insurance Report

Other Risk Reading/Electronic Books

Gerald J.S. Wilde's book on risk assessment in everyday decision making Target Risk is now available on the web (complete publication). He has also brought out a Spanish edition.

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini has written a very readable popular book on cognitive illusions "Inevitable Illusions : How mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds" published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.