A SPECIAL WORD

to anyone who made any money out of the Lloyd's of London 1991-2009 debacle: please give generously towards the relatively modest £25,000 GoFundMe target for these reasons, among others:-

• the saga made you good money

• if you were a lawyer at the time, you probably came across my relevant books, articles and conference talks, which almost certainly helped you in what was probably a lucrative specialist practice. If we met professionally on this subject, you will have experienced the uniquely distinctive Astor lucidity at first hand

•  the book will form an important part of the permanent historical, business and legal record and needs to get done properly

• all false modesty aside, I'm one of the very few people, and I may be the only person, who can and will get this project done. You know from my record that I'm the right man for the job.

THE GIVING PROCESS

If you so wish, please email me before and or after you've made a donation so we can get acquainted, we can discuss the project, and I can tell you where your money is going to go: rszrabe@protonmail.com.

You might fancy funding something specific like a graphic, a computer model, etc.: see below for some specific envisaged expenses. 

SPECIFIC EXPENSES

Substantial niche creative for-profit business projects like this one — on a technical subject for general and professional readers — don't research, write, print, produce, publish, promote or sustain themselves, and at no upfront cost. They need the effort, and related expenses, of conception, gestation, birth and upbringing in order to see the light of day and attempt to turn a profit. This project is not a hobby and I'm not a charity. It must stand on its own two feet financially.

I anticipate that project-specific expenses will include (for example):-

• data processing and products, some of it by AI, some by humans: financial calculations; analysis and evaluation of financial statements, technical documents (policies, wordings, slip stamps, SYA stamps, pleadings, judicial decisions etc.) and other data (two firsts: the unprecedented collection in one place of relevant data, and their unprecedented examination holistically, in full context, cross-referenced and correlated); data-intensive graphics (I like Wolfram.com and similar products); multi-dimensional full-context models and simulations; animations, etc.

• acquiring relevant data not available for free

• book layout: I can lay out a textbook myself, but this book will be of a different order of presentational and substantive complexity and will need professional help

• an attractive, modern, fully functional, interactive website where users can examine, analyse and play with relevant data etc.

• an online repository of relevant publicly available documents

• unavoidable travel to unavoidable sources and source material (not everyone and everything is online sufficiently or at all)

• engaging an appropriate (not too fancy) screenwriter to make a preliminary draft outline (with storyboards) of a screenplay, and appropriate modestly priced videographers etc. for the documentary.

(I already have a GoFundMe campaign for another separate publishing project. That other GoFundMe campaign's detailed description of its expenses is here. Similar expenses will apply to The Policy project, but there won't be any duplication, and there should be some efficiencies.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, REWARDS

if you so wish, you and or your donation will be acknowledged on the project's website. 

Please email me — rszrabe@protonmail.com — to let me know your donation.

Every donor of £250 will receive:-

• • a complementary numbered hard copy of The Policy inscribed and autographed by me (delivered to you by courier at my expense)

  • a one-on-one 90-minute video call

  • 15% discount on any and all project products multimedia products

  • admission to Bronze level of The Policy Supporters Club. 

Every donor of any amount over £250 is invited to email me — rszrabe@protonmail.com — to personally discuss additional ways in which I can express my thanks. I'm sure I'll be able to think of something interesting for you.

If you fund something specific and you so wish, you will be acknowledged coterminously with whatever you have funded ("This xxxxx has been funded [in full / in part] by a generous donation from xxxxx", or per agreed wording).