The Nature And Uses Of Lotteries
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| Author | : Thomas Gataker |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2013-10-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 184540730X |
Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important treatise is often referred to, but is generally inaccessible due to its rarity and old-style of language. The text of this edition has been fully modernised, with notes on important sources used by Gataker and includes a new introduction.
| Author | : Peter Stone |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2011-04-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0199756104 |
Largely, this is because lottery-based decisions are not based upon reasons.
| Author | : Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher | : The Creative Company |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781583415849 |
A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.
| Author | : Don Catlin |
| Publisher | : Bonus Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9781566251938 |
This book should be read by everyone who plays the state-run lotteries. Despite the fact that we players all know 'the odds are a million to one' against winning those big jackpots, most of us don't know the nature of these games or the math behind them or, yes, how to most effectively play them. In this groundbreaking book, you will learn: How to increase your chances of winning a jackpot that doesn't have to be shared with other players; How to tell when a jackpot becomes a 'positive expectation' bet and what that really means; How to keep the long arm of the government from getting its hands on significant portions of your wins; How to figure the odds on the various lotteries and the typical scratch-off tickets; How to find 'positive expectation' scratch-off games during special promotions.
| Author | : John Hawthorne |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199269556 |
This work is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.
| Author | : Barbara Goodwin |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1845407377 |
This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. The first chapter is a utopian fragment about a future country, Aleatoria, where everything, including political power, jobs and money, is distributed by lottery. The rest of the book is devoted to considering the idea of the lottery in terms of the conventional components and assumptions of theories of justice, and to reviewing the possible applications of lottery distribution in contemporary society. This revised second edition includes a new introduction.
| Author | : Matthew Vaz |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2020-04-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022669044X |
Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today’s lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago’s south side, police took notice of the illegal business—and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.
| Author | : Beth Goobie |
| Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2002-10-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1554697417 |
Every student at Saskatoon Collegiate knew that all the most important aspects of school life were controlled by a secret club called Shadow Council. Each fall, Shadow held a traditional lottery during which a single student's name was drawn. The rest of the student body called the student the lottery winner. But Shadow Council knew better; to them, the winner was the lottery victim. Whatever the label, the fated student became the Council's gofer, delivering messages of doom to selected targets. In response, the student body shunned the lottery winner for the entire year. This year's victim was fifteen-year-old Sally Hanson.
| Author | : Thomas Gataker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : |
Boyle offers this fresh edition of Thomas Gataker's 17th-century treatise that features spellings and explanatory notes for the modern-day reader.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2022-08-12 |
| Genre | : Gambling |
| ISBN | : 0197604889 |
This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of surging inequality and stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating a new source of revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Even as evidence emerged that lotteries only provided a small percentage of state revenue, and even as data mounted about their appeal to the poor, states kept passing them and kept adding new games, desperate for their longshot gamble to pay off. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities. For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.
