Description
Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry.
Trade ReviewGoss and Morse provide an outstandingly sound economic understanding of the function and place of casinos in American society, including essential heretofore unavailable grounding in the legal issues that the book accomplishes remarkably effectively. Moreover, this wealth of economic and legal information is transmitted in an engaging and readable manner. Scholarly, thoughtfully collected and authoritative, the book is of interest to any learner of the gambling industry, including students, civic activists, legislators, and scholars. - Earl Grinols, Baylor University ""In this book, Morse and Goss make important contributions to our understanding of the negative outcomes of the expansion of gambling in America."" - Jon Bruning, Nebraska Attorney General
