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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measured economic activity, indexed contracts, wealth diminishes, entrepreneurial acts, full indexation, full indexing, nominal contracts, inheritance customs, inflationary episodes, people gamble Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The consequences of wars can rarely, if ever, be predicted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
measured economic activity, indexed contracts, wealth diminishes, entrepreneurial acts, full indexation, full indexing, nominal contracts, inheritance customs, inflationary episodes, people gamble Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Middle Ages, Adam Smith, United Kingdom, Statistics Canada, Anatole France, Western Europe, Occasional Purchases of Lottery Tickets, Wall Street Journal New!
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- The Industrial Revolution by Arnold Joseph Toynbee on page 103, page 104, and Back Matter
- On War (Dodo Press) by Carl von General Clausewitz on page 9, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France on page 4, page 36, and page 197
- Monetary Reform by John Maynard Keynes on page 134, and page 185
- A Tract on Monetary Reform (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes on page 134, and page 185
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- Rivalry: In Business, Science, among Nations by Reuven Brenner on 7 pages
- Gambling and Speculation: A Theory, a History, and a Future of some Human Decisions by Reuven Brenner on 6 pages
- The Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets by Reuven Brenner in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Charles F. Doran in Back Matter
- Legalized Gambling: For and Against by Rod Evans on page 190
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