Gambling for Profit : : Historical Contingency and Jagged Growth / / Kerry G. E. Chambers.
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, gam...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 p.) :; 3 Figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework
- 2. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes
- 3. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States
- 4. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States
- 5. Historical Contingency in Political-Economic and Sociocultural Contexts
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index