There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.

[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.

They pay sizable sums for tickets to the prepublic showings, which are then applied as credit toward purchases.

They would no longer be monopolists of specialist knowledge, purveyable to private parties in pursuit of private interests. Rather, they would become instruments, one type among many, for the realisation of collective goals.