Gambling : mapping the American moral landscape / Alan Wolfe, Erik C. Owens, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.Description: viii, 509 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781602581951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1602581959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV 6715 .G2856 2009
Contents:
The importance of a good cause : ends and means in state lotteries / Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook -- The politics of sovereignty and public policy toward gambling / Michael Nelson -- Negotiating a different terrain : morality, policymaking, and Indian gaming / Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven A. Light -- New policies, same old vice : gambling in the twenty-firstst century / R. Shep Melnick -- Behavioral and brain measures of risk-taking / Rachel T.A. Croson, Matthew Fox, and James Sundali -- Gambling with the family? / John P. Hoffmann -- Gambling and morality : a neuropsychiatric perspective / Marc Potenza -- The unproblematic normalization of gambling in America / John Dombrink -- The memory of sin : gambling in Jewish law and ethics / William Galston -- Grace and gambling / Kathryn Tanner -- The criminal law of gambling : a puzzling history / David A. Skeel, Jr. and William Stuntz -- Playing and praying : what's luck got to do with it? / Dwayne E. Carpenter -- Beyond pathology : the cultural meanings of gambling / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Civic values and "education lotteries" : the irony of funding public education with lottery revenues / Erik c. Owens -- A tale of two "sins" : regulation of gambling and tobacco / Richard McGowan -- The culture war issue that never was : why the right and left have overlooked gambling / Alan Wolfe.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The importance of a good cause : ends and means in state lotteries / Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook -- The politics of sovereignty and public policy toward gambling / Michael Nelson -- Negotiating a different terrain : morality, policymaking, and Indian gaming / Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven A. Light -- New policies, same old vice : gambling in the twenty-firstst century / R. Shep Melnick -- Behavioral and brain measures of risk-taking / Rachel T.A. Croson, Matthew Fox, and James Sundali -- Gambling with the family? / John P. Hoffmann -- Gambling and morality : a neuropsychiatric perspective / Marc Potenza -- The unproblematic normalization of gambling in America / John Dombrink -- The memory of sin : gambling in Jewish law and ethics / William Galston -- Grace and gambling / Kathryn Tanner -- The criminal law of gambling : a puzzling history / David A. Skeel, Jr. and William Stuntz -- Playing and praying : what's luck got to do with it? / Dwayne E. Carpenter -- Beyond pathology : the cultural meanings of gambling / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Civic values and "education lotteries" : the irony of funding public education with lottery revenues / Erik c. Owens -- A tale of two "sins" : regulation of gambling and tobacco / Richard McGowan -- The culture war issue that never was : why the right and left have overlooked gambling / Alan Wolfe.

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