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100 1 $aBrenner, Reuven.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82091193
245 12 $aA world of chance :$bbetting on religion, games, Wall Street /$cReuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner, Aaron Brown.
260 $aCambridge :$bNew York : Cambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $axviii, 339 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aFrom 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 309-324) and indexes.
650 0 $aRisk.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114195
650 0 $aCompetition.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029337
650 0 $aDecision making.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036199
650 0 $aWealth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145828
650 0 $aSocial history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123948
650 0 $aGambling.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052909
650 0 $aChance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022484
700 1 $aBrenner, Gabrielle A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83033183
700 1 $aBrown, Aaron,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005080892
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007052044-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007052044-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007052044-t.html
852 00 $boff,bus$hHB615$i.B733 2008