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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Systemic risk: a moral tale of ten insurance companies - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 November 2014 04:43PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 17 November 2014 11:56:47PM *  3 points [-]

This looks like the Tragedy of the commons applied to risk i.e. risk (diversification) is the common good. If all take a part of it (by pooling risks) the aggregate risk goes up.