This book consists of several carefully crafted essays on the subject of gambling. The first two essays relate the latest trends on technology and communications to the development of actual gambling practice. And so the first essay documents the impact of simulcast racing on wagering dollars--the impact simulcast bettering has raised the total amounts wagered from .25 billion dollars in 1985 to 15.62 billion dollars in 2002. Bettors find great interest in this developing technology.

The next essay untangles the logic of the -double-auction gambling market- by explaining how the...

This book gathers together several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the Peart-Levy thesis.

• Contains several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the thesis expressed in Professors Sandra J. Peart's and David M. Levy's book The 'Vanity of the Philosopher' From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-classical Economics
• Explains the importance of 'analytic egalitarianism' in economics and the sad consequences of moving away from this approach
• Provides reading that can complement reading lists in economics,...

This book gathers together several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the Peart-Levy thesis.

• Contains several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the thesis expressed in Professors Sandra J. Peart's and David M. Levy's book The 'Vanity of the Philosopher' From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-classical Economics
• Explains the importance of 'analytic egalitarianism' in economics and the sad consequences of moving away from this approach
• Provides reading that can complement reading lists in economics,...

Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. His History of Economic Analsyis is perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Schumpeter's views on his predecessors have proved to be a constant source of controversy. Here individual chapters examine such disparate questions as Schumpeter's apparent disregard for the American Institutionalists, his grudging respect for Adam Smith, the perspicacity of his views of...