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Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation - Softcover

Brenner, Reuven

 
9780226074016: Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226074013 ISBN 13: 9780226074016
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1989

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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.

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Betting On Ideas employs the same explanatory hypothesis advance in Brenner's 1983 book, History, The Human Gamble, but back it up with the evidence of war, inventions, inheritance laws, inflation, and indexation and urges some pragmatic applications.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226074013
ISBN 13 
9780226074016
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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