Measuring costs from permitted gaming: Concepts and categories in evaluating gambling's consequences

Journal of Gambling Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-213

  Eadington, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Nonmarket costs; Social and economic policies related to gambling; Social costs of gambling; Social protection; Social wealth

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; LAW; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POLICY; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; ADDICTION; ECONOMICS; ETHICAL THEORY; LICENSING; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHICAL THEORY; GAMBLING; HUMANS; LICENSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0038500852     PISSN: 10505350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023681315907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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