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Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation

Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation

Brenner, Reuven

Paperback

Series: Wars, Invention, Inflation

General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0226074013
ISBN13: 9780226074016
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jul 10 1989
Pages: 255
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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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