Americans now spend over $300 billion each year in legal gambling, and the gambling industry has become a major contributor to tax revenues. In the past 30 years, nearly all states have permitted some form of gambling, and 126 Native American tribes now operate reservation casinos. Yet, even as legalized gambling has grown by leaps and bounds, public opinion has turned against it, and political opposition has mobilized. Some critics of gambling want to return to the situation before World War I, when virtually all gambling was illegal in every state, while others want to regulate the industry to channel the popular appetite for gambling into its arguably less undesirable forms. Legalized Gambling: For and Against captures all the main arguments on both sides in this increasingly heated controversy, with 23 carefully-selected contributions by a balanced range of writers.
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From the perspective of a city planner representing a city considering the "opportunity" of legalized gambling, I had searched for a book that comprehensively tackled the subject from both sides of the difficult issue. This is the first such book that effectively meets that goal. Heretofore, much of what I had read had a particularly biased approach that failed to fairly represent the pros and cons of legalized gambling. This book is a good start, but should be complemented with additional readings and up to date statistics and anecdotes.
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legalized gambling activities, business location models, national gambling policy, nonlottery states, see herein notes, economic gamblers, gambling proliferation, gambling researchers, state gambling commissions, states with lotteries, gambling organizations, gambling proponents, reservation gambling, commercial gambling, gambling legislation, riverboat gambling, against legalized gambling, unlawful gambling, tribal gaming, state gambling laws, gambling behavior, pathological gamblers, gambling policies, tribal economic development, recreational gambling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Native American, American Indian, Interior Department, South Dakota, Supreme Court, Gamblers Anonymous, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Code Ann, Interior Secretary, Appointments Clause, New Orleans, Selling Hope, Mashantucket Pequots, Robert Goodman, Senate Hearing, The Economics of Gambling, New Hampshire, North America, Vicki Abt, Casino Plan New!
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legalized gambling activities, business location models, national gambling policy, nonlottery states, see herein notes, economic gamblers, gambling proliferation, gambling researchers, state gambling commissions, states with lotteries, gambling organizations, gambling proponents, reservation gambling, commercial gambling, gambling legislation, riverboat gambling, against legalized gambling, unlawful gambling, tribal gaming, state gambling laws, gambling behavior, pathological gamblers, gambling policies, tribal economic development, recreational gambling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Native American, American Indian, Interior Department, South Dakota, Supreme Court, Gamblers Anonymous, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Code Ann, Interior Secretary, Appointments Clause, New Orleans, Selling Hope, Mashantucket Pequots, Robert Goodman, Senate Hearing, The Economics of Gambling, New Hampshire, North America, Vicki Abt, Casino Plan New!
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- The Luck Business by Robert Goodman on 6 pages
- Gambling and the Law by I. Nelson Rose on 5 pages
- The Chase : Career of the Compulsive Gambler by Henry R. Lesieur on 4 pages
- Disorganized Crime: Illegal Markets and the Mafia (Organization Studies) by Peter Reuter on 4 pages
- Impact of Legalized Gambling: The Socioeconomic Consequences of Lotteries and Off-track Betting by David Weinstein on 4 pages
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- How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better or Worse by David Frum in Back Matter
- Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System by Jeffrey Ian Ross in Back Matter
- You Bet Your Life: The Burdens of Gambling by Neil D. Isaacs in Back Matter
- Jokers Wild: Legalized Gambling in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Barker on page 5
- Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits by Earl L. Grinols in Back Matter
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