The luck of the draw [electronic resource] : the role of lotteries in decision making / Peter Stone.

By:

Stone, Peter, 1971 October 14-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780199895120 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

320.6 22

LOC classification:

HG6111

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Oxford scholarship online

Summary: A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics & society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are 'at first thought absurd, & at second thought obvious.' Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek & Roman times, & they are used widely in American politics today.

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A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics & society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are 'at first thought absurd, & at second thought obvious.' Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek & Roman times, & they are used widely in American politics today.

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