Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream
... America's pastime for many years , poker has replaced it as the game Americans truly care about . I argue that throughout history , America's attitudes toward poker parallel wider social trends in the country , and thus the game serves ...
Lottery Wars
... Social Sciences . Reno , Nev .: Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming , University of Nevada ... America's Bad Bet . Lafayette , La .: Huntington House Publishers , 1994 . Ezell , John S. Fortune's Merry Wheel ...
International Gaming & Wagering Business
... casino gaming in areas from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi to the Black Hills of South Dakota . This recent growth has made it eas- ier for us to quantify the economic and social ... America's Casino Gaming Industry , which I submitted to ...
Casinos and Gaming
Selected References. Casino. Gambling. in. Illinois. : Riverboats. ,. Revenues ... America's heartland . Interstate and intercity competition for the gam- ing ... social costs of gambling far outweigh its economic benefits ( Kindt 1994 ...
Casino Gambling in America
... social indica- tors . By 1995 , Mississippi had become the number two or ... America's " Bible Belt , " Mis- sissippi has a long history of being a ... Casino Gambling in Mississippi Klaus J Meyer-Arendt Introduction Background of Gaming in ...
Gangsters to Governors
... social casino games " partners listed alongside their official suppliers of beer and athletic gear . 7. Ginsburg ... America's Game , 48 . 25. Ibid . , 48-49 . 26. Ibid . , 49 . 27. Maraniss , When Pride Still Mattered , 337 . 28 ...
California and Nevada
... America's foremost experts on gambling and gambling law , the first wave ... social gambling began to be legalized in the ' 50s ; but it wasn't until the ... casino - style gambling would thus require a voter approval of a ...
Casino Development
... Social Costs Leader : Helen F. Ladd is Professor of Public Policy Studies ... America's Ailing Cities : Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy . Panelists : G. Michael Brown is President and Chief Executive Officer of Foxwoods Resort ...
Bingo Capitalism
The Law and Political Economy of Everyday Gambling Kate Bedford. Reith , Gerda . 2016. " Gambling 2 " : A Political Economy of Mobile and Social Gambling ' . Paper presented at the conference All Bets Are Off : Reflecting Critically on ...
Gambling
... gambling continued to thrive until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 . From 1829 to 1837 , America's president was Andrew Jackson ( 1767–1845 ) . The Jacksonian era was associated with a new attention to social problems and focus on ...
A Companion to Tourism
... casino opens in Niagara Falls, NY. Burlington Free Press (p. 2A). Burlington, VT. Carmichael, B., Peppard, D., and ... Social Sciences. Reno: University of Nevada Press. Eisler, K. I. (2001). Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small ...
Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic
... Gambling Capital ' or ' Entertainment Capital of the World ' perpetuates the glamorous aspects of casino lifestyles and pleasure - seeking in clubs without addressing the social frictions that simmer beneath the city's surface ...
Legalized Gambling
... Gambling : A Reference Handbook . Santa Barbara , CA : ABC - CLIO , 1994 . Michael B. Walker Periodicals Michael Angeli Sandra Blakeslee Marc Cooper The Psychology of Gambling ( International Series in Social Psychology ) . Newton , MA ...
Congressional Record
... casino gambling's coming failure , start with the reason for its success . In the 1940s , when Bugsy Siegel turned ... America's most successful casino , Foxwoods , which sits on land belong- ing to the Mashantucket Pequot tribe of ...
Social Effects of Gambling on Floating Vessels
... Casino Magic in Bay Saint Louis , Mississippi is touted as the largest dockside casino development in the world -- it floats but is permanently attached to a dock.60 In May , 1994 , Casino America's newly built and self- propelled Lady ...
Gambling
... social change . In October 1774 the Continental Congress of the American ... casino - type gambling continued to prosper and spread to riverboats ... America's president was Andrew Jackson ( 1767–1845 ) . The Jacksonian era ...
Today's Health
... social workers , psychiatrists , and law- enforcement officials peg the figure at between five and 10 million persons- making compulsive gambling America's largest unrecognized health menace . " I feel that there are just as many ...
Legalized Gambling
... Casino . " Journal of Gambling Studies 7 ( summer ) : 143-164 . 1988. " Criminal ... Social Costs of Gambling in Wisconsin . Milwaukee : Wisconsin Policy ... America's Gambling Fever . " Business Week ( 24 April ) : 112-115 ...