Symposium on The Gambling Animal: replies to critics

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2026-06-12
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Harrison, Glenn W.
Ross, Don
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10.1080/1350178X.2026.2686644
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The Gambling Animal synthesises material from multiple disciplines, which presents a challenge for any individual reviewer with a specific focus of disciplinary expertise. The critical analyses that have been produced for the symposium rise, at least as a set, to that challenge. In this article, we respond to our reviewers. Responding to them has led us to reflect more deeply on various aspects of our natural history of human risk management, with comparative attention to elephants. We hope that readers who cannot prioritise reading our book will gather a useful sense of what it aims to accomplish and how, and that other readers will be inspired by the symposium to turn attention to the book itself.
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Climate change , Collective action , Cultural evolution , Economic agency , Risk management , [SocietyPoliticsEthics]
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Harrison, G W & Ross, D 2026, 'Symposium on The Gambling Animal: replies to critics', Journal of Economic Methodology, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2026.2686644
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© 2026, the Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.