http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/the_tsunami_and.html The Indian Ocean tsunami illustrates a type of disaster to which policymakers pay too little attention�a disaster that has a very low or unknown probability of occurring, but that if it does occur creates enormous losses. Great as the death... en-us http://www.no-treason.com/archives/2005/01/08/good-investment-for-whom/ It seems to me that I'm the one in the best position to manage my own risks; why should I want to manage the risks of others? Richard Posner smuggles in a collectivist premise when he writes: The fact that a catastrophe is very unlikely to occur is... http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/009048.html The issue of the week at the Becker-Posner blog is catastrophes and humankind's response to them. This is of particular interest given Judge Posner's recent book and the subject matter it discusses. It is only natural, therefore, that Posner begins... http://www.verylaw.com/lawblog/index.php?job=art&articleid=a_20050108_012747 作者:Posner,原文在这里, 基于Creative Commons License发布英汉对照的翻译见 [贝克尔-波斯纳-BLOG]中文翻译项目(希望大家踊跃地参与到这个WIKI协作项目中来),本翻译文基于发布,翻译人素为.声明:翻译�... http://www.ampolsk.com/2005/01/the_new_republi.html The New Republic Online (subscription required) is up with two articles that help make the case that the East Asian tsunami is, among other things, an enormous blank slate onto which you can project the ideology of your choice. Peter http://globaloctopus.blogspot.com/2005/01/cold-blooded-but-fascinating-look-at.html It seems a bit cold-blooded, but illustrates a rational, as opposed to purely emotional, means to allocate resources to risk-prevention and risk-mitigation. One of the building-blocks of the analysis is how much a life is worth (in the U.S., so they ... http://jessezink.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunami-prevention.html Richard Posner has some interesting thoughts about the lack of preventive measures in place before the recent tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.... I link to this because I was wondering recently what would happen if a tsunami had hit a more developed cou... http://duophony.infidelworld.net/archives/asiapacific/index.html#000370 The 12/26 tsunami is not the story of a freak act of God. Its a statistical blip, which is exacerbating a man-made travesty of justice in more than one country. The uncritical outpouring of donations by admirably-intended, but naive, and perhaps oblivi... http://opinion.paifamily.com/index.php?p=1153 Answers from the dismal science The Becker-Posner blog has excellent posts on the economics of catastrophic risk. Here is an excerpt.Nevertheless, it seems apparent that the total cost figure of the recent tsunami will come in at an amount great eno...