Gambling for profit: lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus

"Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, including lotterie...

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Main Author: Chambers, Kerry 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto Univ. of Toronto Press 2011
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Summary:"Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, including lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- Historical Contingency in Political Economic and Sociocultural Contexts
Physical Description:xvi, 279 S. 24 cm
ISBN:9781442641891

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