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Jim Orford

The Gambling Establishment

Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies

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There are now signs that, after decades of phenomenal growth, the era of unrestrained gambling liberalisation may be coming to an end. However, the power of the Gambling Establishment is formidable, and it will certainly fight back. Drawing on research and policy examples from around the world, the book provides a unified understanding of the dangerousness of modern commercialised gambling, how its expansion has been deliberately or inadvertently supported, and how the backlash is now occurring. The term Gambling Establishment is defined to include the industry which sells gambling, governments which support it, and a wider network of organis… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-429-63259-4
  • EAN: 9780429632594
  • Produktnummer: 31931828
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 204 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'495 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 3 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 6 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Jim Orford is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He is a long-standing, internationally recognised researcher and writer in the fields of addiction and community psychology, one of the UK's leading academics on the subject of gambling, and well-known for his critical views on policy. In 2012 he set up the Gambling Watch UK website to help campaign for a public health approach to gambling.

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