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

Contributor(s): Publication details: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.Description: viii, 509 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781602581951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1602581959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 175 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6715 .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-first 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.
Summary: Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with essays by experts at the country?s premiere centers in public policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology, moral philosophy, theology, and the arts, Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape is a tour de force of the booming cultural and moral phenomenon that has become woven into the fabric of American life. Both an attempt to understand and an effort to predict its future consequences, the book will prove evocative and critical reading for American civic and church leaders, activists, historians and government officials. -- Publisher description.
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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-first 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.

Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with essays by experts at the country?s premiere centers in public policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology, moral philosophy, theology, and the arts, Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape is a tour de force of the booming cultural and moral phenomenon that has become woven into the fabric of American life. Both an attempt to understand and an effort to predict its future consequences, the book will prove evocative and critical reading for American civic and church leaders, activists, historians and government officials. -- Publisher description.

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