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  title info:
    title: Gambling for profit
    sub title: lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus
  name:
    name part: Chambers, Kerry
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "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, gaming machines, and casinos.
  abstract: Gambling for Profit is unique among studies of gambling's twentieth-century growth thanks to Kerry G.E. Chambers's strong analytical framework - investigating not only the political aspects of legalization, but also the sociocultural factors that influence popular adoption. Chambers provides a useful chronological examination of the electronic gambling phenomenon, as well as comparative data on dates of introduction and revenues across twenty-three countries. Gambling for Profit provides a dynamic model to explore the legalization of gambling and stresses the inadequacy of seeking universal explanations for gambling's entrenchment within particular cultures."--pub. desc.
  table of contents: The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- Historical Contingency in Political Economic and Sociocultural Contexts.
  note: Kerry G.E. Chambers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Gambling
    genre: Cross-cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Gambling
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Gambling
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Gambling
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Jeux de hasard
    genre: Études transculturelles
  subject:
    topic: Jeux de hasard
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Jeux de hasard
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
  subject:
    topic: Jeux de hasard
    topic: Aspect économique
  classification: HV6710 .C53 2011
  classification: 306.4/82
  identifier: 9781442641891
  identifier: 1442641894
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 110622
    record change date: 20151202151646.0
    record identifier: in00002740220
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng