Papers on any risk or insurance related topics are welcome. Specific subject areas include, but are not limited to, insurance economics, risk management, behavioral risk perception, law and regulation of insurance and risk transfer mechanisms, insurance accounting, insurance operations,...

Papers dealing with any aspect of the history of economic thought are welcome, including work related to any period or any school of economic thought. Also welcome are papers that situate economics in wider intellectual and cultural contexts or relate it to other disciplines.

Session by Evelyn L. Forget: “Basic Income: The Past and the Present”, Session by Guy Numa: “Beyond Say’s Law: Reappraising Jean-Baptiste Say’s Political Economy”, Session by Till Düppe : “Economic Knowledge in Socialism”, Session by Franck Jovanovic: “Physics and Financial...

The Cliometric Society will sponsor three sessions and the Economic History Association will sponsor two sessions at the ASSA meetings in Philadelphia.