Gambling in America

Name: Gambling in America
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ISBN: 9780521124171

Costs and Benefits

Earl L. Grinols (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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English

Cambridge University Press
03 December 2009

Crime & criminology; Psychology; Sport & leisure industries

Gambling in America carefully breaks ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and often negative economic consequences, these factors are incorporated into the discussion. The book also shows how amenity benefits - for casinos, the benefit to consumers of closer proximity - enter the evaluation. Other topics include agent incentives and public decision making, conceptual clarifications about economic development, cost-benefit analysis, and net export multiplier models. Professor Grinols finds that, in considering all relevant factors, the social costs of casino gambling outweigh their social benefits.

By: Earl L. Grinols (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9780521124171
ISBN 10: 0521124174
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 03 December 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Considerations; 3. Agents and incentives; 4. Economic development; 5. Cost-benefit analysis; 6. Social benefits; 7. Social costs; 8. The present and the future.

Reviews for Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits

'Earl L. Grinols is ... clearly a man of great influence on significant American decision-makers. Gambling in America is a personal quest - a worthy, earnest and quietly passionate look at how we should examine the industry and make decisions about expanding casino empires.' Sam Marsden, jackpot.co.uk