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- Title
Order for Profit: On the Architecture of a Nineteenth-Century French Agency.
- Authors
Amunátegui, Cristóbal
- Abstract
The article focuses on the architecture and operations of a nineteenth-century French agency, particularly the Agence Pari Mutuel, which specialized in mutual betting. It explores the evolution of agencies from mediators to coordinators of material, spatial, and temporal variables. It delves into the historical context of the agency's establishment, its legal and moral controversies, and its eventual nationalization under Joseph Oller's guidance.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT agencies; GOVERNMENT ownership; NINETEENTH century; GAMBLING; COORDINATORS (Human services); HILL, James
- Publication
Grey Room, 2024, Issue 95, p6
- ISSN
1526-3819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/grey_a_00399