What Five Centuries of Civic Lotteries Built
Wagering and Dutch civic life developed in parallel, not in opposition. The mercantile culture that made Amsterdam the financial capital of the seventeenth century had already normalized probabilistic thinking as a daily practice — insurance contracts on cargo, speculative investment in land reclamation, options trading on commodity futures — and gambling sat comfortably within that...
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