Gambling in America - Costs and Benefits

Klappentext The public decision-making process governing the issue of casino gambling tends to lead to wrong outcomes! and the studies typically provided to justify the phenomenon are conceptually flawed. Seeking to describe what true economic development is! this study establishes the framework for a valid cost-benefit analysis to assess whether it actually occurs and its methods can be applied to the casino industry in America. Accounting for a wide range of economic and social factors! Earl Grinols concludes that the social costs of casino gambling considerably outweigh their social benefits. Zusammenfassung Gambling in America explains why the public decision making process governing the issue of casino gambling tends to lead to wrong outcomes and why the studies typically provided to justify the phenomenon are conceptually flawed. Professor Grinols documents that the social costs of casino gambling considerably outweigh their social benefits. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Earl L. Grinols
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521830133
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83013-3
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Sociology & anthropology, The Americas, Political science and theory, Crime & criminology