TY - JOUR
AU1 - Samuels, Warren J.
AB - Book Reviews 1083 subsidies and guaranteed ore prices. Major When All Else Fails: Government as the Ulti- uranium discoveries were made at each town, mate Risk Manager. By David A. Moss. (Cam- and from 1946 to 1958 civic concerns cen- bridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii, 456 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00757-3.) tered on boomtown ills—overwhelmed infra- structures and inadequate health care, law en- forcement, and education. Company town David A. Moss’s carefully researched and rea- soned study interprets a wide array of govern- paternalism helped Uravan and Jeffrey City ment policies as risk management in the sense cope; Grants and Moab depended on boosters of risk reallocation, in juxtaposition to pro- and developers buoyed by hopes of an unlim- grams of risk reduction, risk regulation, and ited future—who could foresee Mikhail Gor- redistribution of income or wealth. These lat- bachev or Three Mile Island? An atomic sub- ter attempt to change expected outcomes, culture grew up—Miss Atomic Energy won a whereas risk reallocation policies seek to make truckload of uranium ore, and Grants’s Ura- individuals’ expected outcomes more certain. nium Cafe served piles of yellowcakes (pan- Moss argues, “risk management constitutes cakes). Dependency was inescapable; Grants one of the 
TI - When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager. By David A. Moss. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii, 456 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-674-00757-3.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3661003
DA - 2003-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/when-all-else-fails-government-as-the-ultimate-risk-manager-by-david-a-CwQpiE2BET
SP - 1083
EP - 1084
VL - 90
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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