stephen stigler (42 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 432 pages. Still good. Front cover with tear (2cm) at the upper edge. Clean pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 730.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.88.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780674009790.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In 1994, historian Stephen Stigler placed a mail-order purchase for a rare bit of ephemera from a French bookstore: a lottery Almanac from 1834. It contained the winning numbers for the entire span of the French Loterie from 1758 onward, including details on prizes actually awarded-difficult data to come by-as well as hand-written notes by an early owner. Stigler was fascinated with what he saw about how the Loterie was carried out, who bought tickets, and what size bets they placed, and so in the decades that followed he amassed booklets, legal documents, advertising bills, notices, contracts, and tickets. His own collection and extensive additional research helped him piece together the Loterie's remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for how we understand the history of risk more broadly. In the 1750s at the urging of famed philandering adventurer Giocomo Casanova (who had recently escaped from a Venetian prison by means of a sharpened iron, an accomplice, a rope of bed sheets, and a stolen gondola), the French state began to embrace risk in its approach to the Loterie. The prize amounts varied depending on the number of tickets bought, and the amount of the bet was determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual lot but was statistically guaranteed it would come out on top in the long run. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception to a 1776 expansion, to its interruption during the French Revolution (but only with the Terror of 1793), to its renewal in 1797 and further expansion, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value'.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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(London, Royal Statistical Society), 1978. 8vo. In the original stapled printed wrappers. Reprinted for private circulation from "The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), Volume 141, part 3". Occassional underlinings in pencil throughout, otherwise fine. Pp. 287-322.

[No place], 1980. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences", Series II, Volume 39, April 24, 1980. Underlignings in text, otherwise a very fresh copy. Pp. 147-57. Scarce offprint-issue of Stigler's law which claim that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Historical acclaim for discoveries is often ascribed to person who bring attention to an idea that is not yet widely known, whether or not that person was its original inventor. Theories may be named long after their discovery. In the case of eponymy, the idea becomes named after that person, even if that person is acknowledged by historians of science not to be the one who discovered it. Often, several people will arrive at a new idea around the same time, as in the case of calculus, Higgs boson, ect. Stigler named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law", deliberately making "Stigler's law" exemplify itself.