Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation by Brenner, Reuven

University of Chicago Press, 1989 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear. Owner name and date on fly leaf. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xi, 247 pp. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

University Of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. New. new edition edition. 255 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

University Of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. New. new edition edition. 255 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.