01431nam a2200301 a 4500 EDZ0000077276 StDuBDS 20150804193936.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110510s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199895120 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HG6111 320.6 22 Stone, Peter, 1971 Oct. 14- The luck of the draw [electronic resource] : the role of lotteries in decision making / Peter Stone. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. Lotteries. Decision making. Political science Decision making. Print version 9780199756100 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199756100.001.0001 37688 37688