Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation - Couverture souple

Brenner, Reuven

 
9780226074016: Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226074013 ISBN 13 : 9780226074016
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226074013
ISBN 13 
9780226074016
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780226074009: Betting on Ideas: Wars, Inventions, Inflation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226074005 ISBN 13 :  9780226074009
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989
Couverture rigide