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Betting on Ideas
- Wars, Invention, Inflation
Engelsk Paperback
Betting on Ideas
- Wars, Invention, Inflation
Engelsk Paperback

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In this book, Reuven Brenner argues that people bet on new ideas and are more willing to take risks when they have been outdone by their fellows on local, national, or international scales. Such bets mean that people deviate from the beaten path and either gamble, commit crimes, or come up with new ideas in art, business, or politics, and ideas concerning war and peace in particular. By using evidence on gambling, crime, and creativity now and during the Industrial Revolution, by examining innovations in English and French inheritance laws and the emergence of welfare legislation, and by looking at what has happened before and after wars, Brenner reaches the conclusion that hope and fear, envy and vanity, sentiments provoked when being leapfrogged, make humans race.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
255
ISBN-13:
9780226074016
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226074013
Udg. Dato:
10 jul 1989
Længde:
2mm
Bredde:
16mm
Højde:
23mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
10 jul 1989
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge