Internet gambling offshore
Subtitle: Caribbean struggles over casino capitalism
By: Andrew F. Cooper
Series: International political economy series; International political economy series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780230293458
Subjects: Gambling industry; Foreign economic relations; Internet gambling
Description: "In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the United States and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of "Casino Capitalism.""--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Reconfiguring Casino Capitalism; title: Virtual Vice or Innovative Virtue?; title: The US Takes a Hard Line: Stigmatizing the Internet Gambling Industry; title: Antigua Responds: The Commercialization of Diplomacy; title: Taking the Struggle (through the WTO) to the US; title: The Global Reach of the "Big Chill" on Internet Gambling; title: The Big Implications of a Small but Straddling Case.