Chips, bits, and the law: An economic geography of Internet gambling

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1245-1260

  Wilson, Mark ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; GAMBLING; INTERNET;

EID: 0041386479     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a35106     Document Type: Article

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