The Luck Business : the Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion

Goodman, Robert

ISBN 10: 0684831821 / ISBN 13: 9780684831824

Editore: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, New York, Ny, U. S. A., 1996

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274p, index. ; 8vo.

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• Titolo: The Luck Business : the Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion
• Editore: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, New York, Ny, U. S. A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0684831821
• ISBN 13: 9780684831824
• Rilegatura: Soft Cover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Economics
  • Business Management
  • Political Science

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Riassunto

In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business, which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very communities that have looked to it as a panacea.

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert Goodman is Lemelson Professor of Environment Design and Planning at Hampshire college and a former columnist for the Boston Globe. He is the author of After the Planners and The Last Entrepreneurs: America’s Regional Wars for Jobs and Dollars, as well as numerous articles on urban planning and economic policy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.