Natural disasters, from bird flu to floods, could cause chaos.
After all, if you step back from the record, deregulation began producing disasters from early on.
Five disasters, from 1792 to 1929, explain the origins of the modern financial system.
It is a survey of nine economic-policy disasters from the past two hundred years.
In Britain a long list of disasters, from cars to semiconductors, is etched in the public's memory.
Yet landslides do not get as much attention as other disasters, from the public or from scientists.
He warns: "Some [free schools] will fail and have predictable disasters from disastrous teaching to financial fraud.
Diamond laughingly describes them as a collection of "the rejects, mistakes and disasters from all our other projects".
The first decade of the 21st century saw 3,496 natural disasters from floods, storms, droughts and heat waves.
The nearly 10-year-old firm, a spinoff from the Willis Group, makes money by taking on the risk of natural disasters from insurers.
I've spent some time talking to people who study weather disasters from different angles, looking for a leadership to-do list.
