Casanova's lottery : the history of a revolutionary game of chance / Stephen M. Stigler.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stigler, Stephen M., author.

Series:

• Chicago scholarship online.
• Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Lotteries--France--History--18th century.
• Lotteries--France--History--19th century.
• Risk--Social aspects--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) : 62 halftones, 22 tables

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Casanova's Lottery' tells the fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• One. Casanova
• Two. The Genoese Lottery
• Three. The Establishment of the Loterie in 1757
• Four. Problems and Adjustments in the Early Drawings
• Five. Antoine Blanquet and the Great Expansion of 177
• Six. The Introduction of Bonus Numbers: Les Primes Gratuites
• Seven. The Spread of the Loterie in Europe
• Eight. Data Security: The Design of the Tickets
• Nine. The Loterie and the Revolution
• Ten. Was the Loterie Fair?
• Eleven. Dreams and Astrology: The Bettors and the Loterie
• Twelve. The Number 45 and the Maturity of Chances
• Thirteen. How Much Did They Bet, and Where?
• Fourteen. Muskets, Fine- Tuned Risk, and Voltaire
• Fifteen. The Loterie in Textbooks and Manuals
• Sixteen. The Suppression of the Loterie in 1836
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix One. Probability
• Appendix Two. Laplace’s Lottery Theorem
• References
• Index

Notes:

• Previously issued in print: 2022.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

0-226-82078-5

OCLC:

1336991474