The modern Las Vegas Casino-hotel: The paradigmatic new means of consumption

Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 83-99

  Ritzer, George ^a   Stillman, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 12344259507     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: 12864692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/mana.043.0083     Document Type: Review

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