Gambling in America
Costs and Benefits

The book documents that social costs of casino gambling outweigh their social benefits.

Earl L. Grinols (Author)

9780521830133, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 January 2004

248 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.547 kg

'Earl L. Grinols is … clearly a man of great influence on significant American decision-makers. Gambling in America is a personal quest - a worthy, earnest and quietly passionate look at how we should examine the industry and make decisions about expanding casino empires.' Sam Marsden, jackpot.co.uk

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.

1. Introduction
2. Considerations
3. Agents and incentives
4. Economic development
5. Cost-benefit analysis
6. Social benefits
7. Social costs
8. The present and the future.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC], Political science & theory [JPA], Psychology [JM], Crime & criminology [JKV], Sociology & anthropology [JH], Regional studies [GTB]