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Title

History--the human gamble / Reuven Brenner.

Author

Brenner, Reuven.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983.

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Details

Description

xiv, 247 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Today human behavior is analyzed by psychologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, among others ... Briefly, a look at the various disciplines in the social sciences will reveal both a rather schizophrenic human being and that very different interpretations are given to the same facts ... This book attempts to show that a uniform approach to all aspects of human behavior as well as to history may be possible. The approach is based on the view that people do their utmost to ensure their self-preservation, a view to which I shall give a precise, rigorous meaning, and from which all the verifiable implications that appear later in this book are derived."--Excerpt from preface.

Subject

• Social history > Methodology
• Social change
• Necessity (Philosophy)
• Risk-taking (Psychology)
• Creative ability
• Diffusion of innovations
• Risk-Taking
• Creativity
• Diffusion of Innovation
• Social Change
• creativity
• Kreativität
• Risikoverhalten
• Sozialer Wandel
• Sociale verandering
• Risicoanalyse
• Vernieuwing
• Social change > History
• Civilization > History
• Creative thinking > Social aspects > History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [227]-239.

Contents

Why do people take risks? or, Was inequality Eve's Apple -- Trust, population, and wealth; or, Why did Cain kill Abel -- Usury laws, brotherhood, anonymity, and the Protestant ethic; or, who was Shylock? -- Anti-Semitism-Why? -- Occupations of minorities -- On thinking, history, and the social sciences -- Happy people do not have a history.

ISBN

• 0226074021
• 9780226074023

LCCN

83005780

OCLC

• ocm09392742
• 9392742
• SCSB-84332

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library