Casinonomics

Author : Douglas M. Walker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461471233

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Casinonomics by Douglas M. Walker Pdf

Casinonomics provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impacts of the casino industry. Examining the latest cutting-edge research, with a mix of theory and empirical evidence, Casinonomics informs the reader on the most important facets at the forefront of the public policy debate over this controversial industry. While the casino industry has continued to expand across the United States, and around the world, critics argue that casinos bring negative social impacts that offset any economic benefits. Casinonomics examines the evidence on the frequently claimed benefits and costs stemming from expansions in the casino industry, including the impact on economic growth, consumer welfare, and government tax revenues, as well as gambling disorders, crime rates, and the impact on other businesses. Readers will come away with a better-informed opinion on the merits of these arguments for and against public policies that would expand casino gambling.

Author : Nader Elhefnawy
Publisher : Nader Elhefnawy
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798836966966

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What is Neoliberalism? Revisiting the Question by Nader Elhefnawy Pdf

The term neoliberal has been in wide academic use for decades but only fairly recently entered the conversation—and quickly become controversial as a result. Back in 2019 Nader Elhefnawy took up this controversy in his book What is Neoliberalism? In this follow-up he revisits the question, offering a new consideration of the word's different meanings, especially how neoliberalism has restructured the world economy and the model of growth policymakers follow in regard to it; the economic record that has followed from it, from what it has meant for international development to what it has meant for the middle class; and how neoliberalism has shaped our thinking about the world, extending even to the idea of the future itself.

Author : Ellen Mutari,Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442236684

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Just One More Hand by Ellen Mutari,Deborah M. Figart Pdf

Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating the real experiences of casino employees, the book demonstrates the difficulties for local communities that are building new casinos in the hopes of luring tourists. Local communities placing all their chips on casinos as an economic development strategy face increasingly long odds. Life stories of individual workers in Atlantic City are explored in the context of the history of the city and the now-global gaming industry. With more and more casinos competing for customers, employees are feeling the brunt of cost-cutting measures, including the wholesale closure of some casinos. While long-time employees are fighting against concessions and wage stagnation, younger workers juggle multiple part-time and seasonal jobs at several casinos. Policy makers hoping to offset these trends are trying to rebrand Atlantic City for a younger, hipper, and more well-to-do clientele using public-private partnerships. Unfortunately, scant attention is being paid to the core issue in economic development—the need for sustainable livelihoods and meaningful work. Here, Ellen Mutari and Deborah Figart explore the realities of the industry and the lives and challenges the workers within it are facing.

Author : Stefanie Haeffele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786603999

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Knowledge and Incentives in Policy by Stefanie Haeffele Pdf

This book, authored by public policy practitioners and researchers, tackle such pressing issues as public education, the process for approving medical devices, tax policy, and land use regulation.

Author : Alissa Mazar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000196634

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Deindustrialization and Casinos by Alissa Mazar Pdf

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos, hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce, this book examines what casinos do—and do not do—for host communities in terms of economic growth. Examining the case generally made by those seeking to establish casino developments—that they offer benefits for the "public good"—the author draws on a case study of Canada’s automotive capital (Windsor, Ontario), which was a pilot site for potential further casino development in the region. The author asks whether casinos do, in fact, offer good jobs, revenue generation, and economic diversification. A study of the benefits of casino developments that considers the question of whether they constitute a ready answer to the problems of industrial and economic decline, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and urban studies, with interests in the gambling industry, economic sociology, the sociology of work, and urban regeneration.

Author : Ernesto U. Savona,Mark A.R. Kleiman,Francesco Calderoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319653617

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Dual Markets by Ernesto U. Savona,Mark A.R. Kleiman,Francesco Calderoni Pdf

This comprehensive volume analyzes dual markets for regulated substances and services, and aims to provide a framework for their effective regulation. A “dual market” refers to the existence of both a legal and an illegal market for a regulated product or service (for example, prescription drugs). These regulations exist in various countries for a mix of public health, historical, political and cultural reasons. Allowing the legal market to thrive, while trying to eliminate the illegal market, provides a unique challenge for governments and law enforcement. Broken down into nine main sections, the book studies comparative international policies for regulating these “dual markets” from a historical, legal, and cultural perspective. It includes an analysis of the markets for psychoactive substances that are illegal in most countries (such as marijuana, cocaine, opiods and amphetimines), psychoactive substances which are legal in most countries and where consumption is widespread (such as alcohol and tobacco), and services that are generally regulated or illegal (such as sports betting, the sex trade, and gambling). For each of these nine types of markets, contributions focus on the relationship between regulation, the emerging illegal market, and the resulting overall access to these services. This work aims to provide a comprehensive framework from a historical, cultural, and comparative international perspective. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime, as well as related fields such as sociology, public policy, international relations, and public health.

Author : Douglas M. Walker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540351047

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The Economics of Casino Gambling by Douglas M. Walker Pdf

Casino gambling has spread throughout the world, and continues to spread. As governments try to cope with fiscal pressures, legalized casinos offer a possible source of additional tax revenue. But casino gambling is often controversial, as some people have moral objections to gambling. In addition, a small percentage of the population may become pathological gamblers who may create significant social costs. The Economics of Casino Gambling is a comprehensive discussion of the social and economic costs and benefits of legalized gambling. It is the first comprehensive discussion of these issues available on the market.

Author : Sara Dolnicar,Bettina Grün,Friedrich Leisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811088186

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Market Segmentation Analysis by Sara Dolnicar,Bettina Grün,Friedrich Leisch Pdf

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book offers something for everyone working with market segmentation: practical guidance for users of market segmentation solutions; organisational guidance on implementation issues; guidance for market researchers in charge of collecting suitable data; and guidance for data analysts with respect to the technical and statistical aspects of market segmentation analysis. Even market segmentation experts will find something new, including an approach to exploring data structure and choosing a suitable number of market segments, and a vast array of useful visualisation techniques that make interpretation of market segments and selection of target segments easier. The book talks the reader through every single step, every single potential pitfall, and every single decision that needs to be made to ensure market segmentation analysis is conducted as well as possible. All calculations are accompanied not only with a detailed explanation, but also with R code that allows readers to replicate any aspect of what is being covered in the book using R, the open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Author : Earl L. Grinols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139450232

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Gambling in America by Earl L. Grinols Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Cabot,Keith Miller
Publisher : Gambling Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1939546125

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Sports Wagering in America by Anthony Cabot,Keith Miller Pdf

Whether by court decision or legislative change, gambling's next expansion in the United States will be sports wagering. However, state and federal policymakers and regulators have limited experience in addressing the many issues that are presented by regulated sports wagering. The challenges they will face are complicated by the fact that sports betting is a global industry encompassing both legal and illegal markets. This book first provides a detailed explanation of the scope and economics of the sports wagering industry and a description of how sportsbooks operate. It then describes the evolving legal landscape for sports wagering in the U.S., culminating in the Supreme Court case that considered New Jersey's challenge to the federal law that has limited sports betting to the state of Nevada. With this foundation, the book turns to an examination of the range of issues that legislators and regulators must consider in establishing regulated sports wagering, such as the need to protect the integrity of sporting events from corruption by criminal elements. Other important topics discussed include the level of regulation needed for sportsbook operators, the proper role of the federal and state governments, taxation, international cooperation, preventing illegal wagering, the role of data collection and analysis, and how to maximize innovation and patron engagement. Legalization is only the beginning of the journey of offering sports betting in the U.S. The authors offer guidance to policymakers as they take up the daunting task of building a regulatory structure for sports wagering. As the book illustrates, the decisions made on how to regulate sports betting will go a long way toward determining the success of this popular form of gambling.

Author : Alissa Mazar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Casinos
ISBN : 0367560844

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Deindustrialization and Casinos by Alissa Mazar Pdf

Through a study of Windsor - Canada's automotive capital - as a pilot site for casino development in Ontario, this book considers what casino developments do - and do not do - for host communities in terms of economic growth, asking whether they constitute a ready answer to the problems of industrial and economic decline.

Author : Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Organizational behavior
ISBN : 0130617210

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Organizational Behavior by Stephen P. Robbins Pdf

This best-selling book takes a traditional approach to Organizational Behavior beginning with The Individual, The Group and then moving into The Organization. It covers the cutting-edge topics such as learning and motivation, emotions, trust and group-dynamics.

Author : Ernest P. Goss,Edward A. Morse
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472024865

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Governing Fortune by Ernest P. Goss,Edward A. Morse Pdf

Written by a lawyer and an economist, Governing Fortune summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. The book sets forth an innovative proposal for the licensing of gamblers as a means to balance the liberty interests of individuals against the social costs generated from problem gambling behavior. Morse and Goss offer both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry and accessible data about every aspect of the gaming environment, including the impact of gambling on economic and social environments. "Goss and Morse provide an outstandingly sound economic understanding of the function and place of casinos in American society, including essential heretofore unavailable grounding in the legal issues that the book accomplishes remarkably effectively. Moreover, this wealth of economic and legal information is transmitted in an engaging and readable manner. Scholarly, thoughtfully collected and authoritative, the book is of interest to any learner of the gambling industry, including students, civic activists, legislators, and scholars." — Earl Grinols, Baylor University "In this book, Morse and Goss make important contributions to our understanding of the negative outcomes of the expansion of gambling in America." — Jon Bruning, Nebraska Attorney General Edward A. Morse is Professor of Law and holder of the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in Business Law at Creighton University School of Law. Ernest P. Goss is Professor of Economics and MacAllister Chair at Creighton University and was a 2004 scholar-in-residence with the Congressional Budget Office.

Author : Anthony N. Cabot,William Norman Thompson,Andrew Tottenham
Publisher : Reno, Nev. : Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, College of Business Administration, University of Nevada
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Casinos
ISBN : UOM:35112200231191

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International Casino Law by Anthony N. Cabot,William Norman Thompson,Andrew Tottenham Pdf

Author : Howard Shaffer
Publisher : Reno : University of Nevada Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015056294104

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Futures at Stake by Howard Shaffer Pdf

"Specialists in psychology, medicine, law, public health, economics, casino management, psychiatry, and criminal justice examine this problem from the perspective of their various disciplines." - cover.