The Hidden Side of Insurance

Amy Finkelstein wrote her new book Risky Business with two other economists, Leeron Enov from Stanford and Ray Fissman from Boston University. She says her love affair with insurance began when she was a junior staffer on the Council of Economic Advisors during the Clinton administration. When I looked back at what were the things that really excited me, I had gotten to work on natural disaster insurance,. The common denominator it turned out was insurance.