The luck business
Subtitle: the devastating consequences and broken promises of America's gambling explosion
By: Robert Goodman.
Edition: 1st Free Press Paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Free Press Paperbacks
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780684831824
Subjects: Gambling -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Gambling -- Government policy -- United States.
Other titles: Devastating consequences and broken promises of America's gambling explosion
Description: A scathing indictment of legalized gambling, the fastest-growing multi-state industry in America. Documents how gambling is the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very community that looked to it as a panacea. Demolishes the false hopes held out by the merchants of chance.
Notes: "Martin Kessler Books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: The new landscape of luck; title: The new gambling economy: convenient gambling, inconvenient results; title: Who plays and who pays?; title: The politics of more gambling: who wants it and how do they get it?; title: Chaser governments: the accidental gambling entrepreneurs; title: Tribal gambling enterprises: issues of sovereignty and economic need; title: McGambling: electronic betting and the future of the industry; title: The government as predator: a troubling new role in troubled economies; title: Fiscal crises: the legacy of convenience gambling; title: The good gamble: more play for the money.