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

Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date: ©2009
Physical Description: viii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Wolfe, Alan, 1942- and Owens, Erik C.

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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.

Subject(s)

Gambling—Moral and ethical aspects—United States

ISBN

9781602581951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1602581959 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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