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A world of chance : betting on religion, games, Wall Street
- Title
- A world of chance : betting on religion, games, Wall Street / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner, Aaron Brown.
- Author
- Brenner, Reuven.
- Publication
- Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
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| Text | Request in advance | HB615 .B733 2008 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- xviii, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-324) and indexes.
- Contents
- From religion to risk management: what to do when facing uncertainty? / Reaven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Anything wrong with gambling as a pastime? / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Are you rich? Risk-taking and gambling, or the leapfrogging instinct / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Betting on futures and creating prices / Reuven Brenner -- Gambling as banking: poker, junk bonds, and central banks / Reuven Brenner, Aaron Brown -- Lottery is a taxation, and heav'n be prais'd, it is easily rais'd / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Politics and prohibitions; or, what's a good tax anyway? / Reuven Brenner -- How gamblers and risk-takers correct the future / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Gambling and risk-taking: the leapfrogging instinct / Reuven Brenner -- Human nature and the civilizing process / Reuven Brenner -- A statistical profile of gamblers / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner, Claude Montmarquette.
- ISBN
- 9780521884662 (hbk.)
- 0521884667 (hbk.)
- 9780521711579 (pbk.)
- 0521711576 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007052044
- 99932003171
- OCLC
- ocn185095549
- 185095549
- SCSB-9036347
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries