Lotteries

Author : Alan J. Karcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000662221

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Lotteries by Alan J. Karcher Pdf

Economic pressure on states in the 1980s have led a number in this country to market lotteries in an unprecedentedly aggressive manner. This book was inspired by the author's experience with the New Jersey state lottery during a period of major growth. Karcher examines lotteries from a historical, psychological, and philosophical perspective, offering a reflective and cogent explanation of their popularity. He looks at the fluctuating popularity of state-sponsored gambling and the consequent peaking and fattening of revenues, exposing the measures lottery commissions sometimes take in order to increase revenues.Self policed lottery commissions, he predicts, will resort to marketing abuses and increasingly prey upon the poor if they are given unbridled power to act. Karcher suggests thoughtful, easily implemented, and constructive reforms. As more state governments inevitably turn to lotteries as a way out of tax dilemmas, this book will contribute to the public discourse on this important policy issue.

Author : Neal Millikan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136674457

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Lotteries in Colonial America by Neal Millikan Pdf

Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Lotteries
ISBN : 9780215084422

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HC 615 - Society Lotteries by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee Pdf

Society lotteries are intended to be primarily a means of raising money for charities and other good causes. The vast majority are small, often local, and raise sums of money that, though not substantial, are vital for the work of the organisations they support. The Gambling Act 2005 relaxed some of the restrictions on such lotteries. This was not a cause of concern until the recent launch of some larger, 'umbrella' lotteries, advertised nationally, run by commercial operations and giving close to the statutory minimum percentage of the proceeds of ticket sales to the good causes they supported. These are controversial in part because they are alleged to stretch the definition of a society lottery as primarily intended to raise money for good causes, and in part because they are seen by some as direct competitors to the National Lottery. As a result, there have been calls for restrictions to be imposed on large society lotteries, while others have suggested the success of the umbrella lotteries could be replicated elsewhere if regulations on society lotteries were relaxed. The Committee has been guided in its approach by the principle that the regulatory regime governing society lotteries should encourage the maximum return to good causes and, provided that the lottery remains focused on its primary purpose, the licensing regime should be light, including continued exemption from gambling and lottery taxes. Accordingly, the Committee recommends greater differentiation between the regulations applied to the great majority of lotteries, which are small and local, and those applied to larger ones, especially those run on behalf of the good causes by commercial organisations, which tend to return smaller proportions of their funds to the charity than single-cause lotteries.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Gambling
ISBN : UOM:39015009164164

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State Lotteries by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Claims and Governmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Gambling
ISBN : LOC:00183876788

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State Conducted Lotteries by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Claims and Governmental Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045453755

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State Conducted Lotteries by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Sophie Raux
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004358812

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Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries by Sophie Raux Pdf

Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture investigates lotteries as an atypical and popular form of the art trade, and as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries (15th-17th centuries).

Author : Sytze Kingma
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gambling industry
ISBN : 9789036100526

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The Leeway of Lotteries in the European Union. An pilotstudy on the liberalisation of gambling markets in EU by Sytze Kingma Pdf

Author : Thomas Gataker
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845407308

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The Nature and Uses of Lotteries by Thomas Gataker Pdf

Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important treatise is often referred to, but is generally inaccessible due to its rarity and old-style of language. The text of this edition has been fully modernised, with notes on important sources used by Gataker and includes a new introduction.

Author : I. Vell Truehart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Lotteries
ISBN : MINN:31951D03584934J

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Legalized Lotteries in Several States by I. Vell Truehart Pdf

Author : Vilhelm Aubert,Dael Wolfle,Dennis C. Mueller,Robert D. Tollison,Thomas D. Willett,Hank Greely,George Sher,Barbara Goodwin,Richard G. Mulgan,Lewis A. Kornhauser,Lawrence G. Sager,Torstein Eckhoff,Fredrik Engelstad,Willem K.B. Hofstee,John Broome,David Wasserman,Sigmund Knag
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845403232

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Lotteries in Public Life by Vilhelm Aubert,Dael Wolfle,Dennis C. Mueller,Robert D. Tollison,Thomas D. Willett,Hank Greely,George Sher,Barbara Goodwin,Richard G. Mulgan,Lewis A. Kornhauser,Lawrence G. Sager,Torstein Eckhoff,Fredrik Engelstad,Willem K.B. Hofstee,John Broome,David Wasserman,Sigmund Knag Pdf

Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and offers a critical introduction tying them together.

Author : Mark Bollman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781351756303

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Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries by Mark Bollman Pdf

Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries is an elementary treatment of the mathematics, primarily probability and simple combinatorics, involved in lotteries and keno. Keno has a long history as a high-advantage, high-payoff casino game, and state lottery games such as Powerball are mathematically similar. MKL also considers such lottery games as passive tickets, daily number drawings, and specialized games offered around the world. In addition, there is a section on financial mathematics that explains the connection between lump-sum lottery prizes (as with Powerball) and their multi-year annuity options. So-called "winning systems" for keno and lotteries are examined mathematically and their flaws identified.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Universal Law Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Lotteries
ISBN : PSU:000017597524

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Legislation Prohibiting State Lotteries from Misappropriating Professional Sports Service Marks by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks Pdf

Author : MARYLAND, State of. House of Delegates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024592788

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Report of the Committee on Lotteries, to the House of Delegates. February 9th, 1835 by MARYLAND, State of. House of Delegates Pdf