Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner

A World of Chance

Betting on Religion, Games, Wall Street

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how some societies created more chances for their members than others and, as a result, prospered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780521711579
• ISBN-10: 0521711576
• Artikelnr.: 23882288

Autorenporträt

Reuven Brenner holds the Repap Chair in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and is a partner in Match Strategic Partners. The author of seven other books, including Gambling and Speculation (Cambridge, 1990, with Gabrielle A. Brenner) and Rivalry: In Business, Science, Among Nations (Cambridge, 1987), he examines what makes societies and firms leapfrog over others or fall behind them. The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Times of London, Asia Times, and Smart Money have reviewed his books. He has also served as a consultant to companies such as the Bank of America, Bell Canada, and Knowledge Universe, and he has worked with financial institutions throughout North America. Brenner has also been a frequent commentator in leading media around the world. Forbes Global's columnists have put two of Professor Brenner's titles on their list of recommended books for all time and profiled him in a cover story titled 'Leapfrogging'. He has served on the board of several companies, received a Fulbright Fellowship and the Killam Award, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From religion to risk management - what do you do when facing uncertainty?
2. Anything wrong with gambling as a pastime?
3. Are you rich? Risk-taking, gambling, and the leapfrogging instinct
4. Betting on futures
5. Gambling - as banking: poker, junk bonds and central banks
6. 'Lottery is a taxation, and Heav'n be prais'd, it is easily rais'd'
7. Politics and prohibitions, or, what's a good tax anyway?
8. How gamblers and risk-takers correct the future
Appendix 1. Gambling and risk-taking: the leapfrogging instinct
Appendix 2. Human nature and the 'civilizing' process
Appendix 3. A statistical profile of gamblers.