Bibliograph

Gambling in America, costs and benefits, Earl L. Grinols

Type

Label

Gambling in America, costs and benefits, Earl L. Grinols

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gambling in America

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

69405661

Responsibility statement

Earl L. Grinols

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

costs and benefits

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Considerations -- Agents and incentives -- Economic development -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Social benefits -- Social costs -- The present and the future -- [APPENDIX] A: Cost benefit to the locality: a scenario -- Glossary

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