“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Preface To The First Edition, p. xiii
The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977

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