Gambling
Subtitle: mapping the American moral landscape
By: Alan Wolfe and Erik C. Owens, editors.
Contributors: Wolfe, Alan, 1942-; Owens, Erik C.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waco, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9781602581951
Subjects: Gambling -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of a good cause : ends and means in state lotteries / Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook; title: The politics of sovereignty and public policy toward gambling / Michael Nelson; title: Negotiating a different terrain : morality policymaking and Indian gaming / Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven A. Light; title: New policies, same old vice : gambling in the 21st century / R. Shep Melnick; title: Behavioral and brain measures of risk-taking / Rachel T.A. Croson, James Sundali, and Matthew Fox; title: Gambling with the family? / John P. Hoffmann; title: Gambling and morality : a neuropsychiatric perspective / Marc Potenza; title: The unproblematic normalization of gambling in America / John Dombrink; title: The memory of sin : gambling in Jewish law and ethics / William Galston; title: Grace and gambling / Kathryn Tanner; title: The criminal law of gambling : a puzzling history / David A. Skeel, Jr. and William Stuntz; title: Playing and praying : what's luck got to do with it? / Dwayne E. Carpenter; title: Beyond pathology : the cultural meanings of gambling / T. J. Jackson Lears; title: Civic values and education lotteries : the irony of funding public education; title: With lottery revenues / Erik Owens; title: A tale of two "sins" : regulation of gambling and tobacco / Richard McGowan, S.J; title: The culture war issue that never was : why the right and left have overlooked gambling / Alan Wolfe.