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Tom Baker

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male

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http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/thbaker/

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Professional & Technical, Social Sciences, Health, Mind & Body

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Tom Baker, a preeminent scholar in insurance law, explores insurance, risk, and responsibility using methods and perspectives drawn from economics, sociology, psychology, and history. He is author of The Medical Malpractice Myth (Chicago, 2005), in which he attacks misperceptions behind the tort reform movement and proposes an evidence-based approach to medical liability reform. Baker’s work on moral hazard has been described as “profound.” In his 1996 paper, On the Genealogy of Moral Hazard (Texas Law Review) Baker explores the shortcomings of moral hazard as a neutral, technical basis for reforming tort law, workers’ compensation, health insurance, and social welfare programs. His latest book, Ensuring Corporate Misconduct (Chicago 2010),...more

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Books by Tom Baker

Average rating: 3.67 · 12 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Medical Malpractice Myth 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Insurance Law And Policy: Cases, Materials, And Problems 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scary Urban Legends by Tom Baker, John C. Eng 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Private Sentences 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation by Tom Baker, Sean J. Griffith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility by Tom Baker (Editor), Jonathan Simon (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating: