Betting on Ideas (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1989
First published:	July 1989
Authors:	Reuven Brenner
Dimensions:	229 x 164 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	255
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-07401-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
LSN:	0-226-07401-3
Barcode:	9780226074016

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