The costs of legalized gambling: An economic approach

It's Legal but it Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-137

  Kindt, John Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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