The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion

by Robert Goodman

Argues that the rapid expansion of state sponsored gambling has increased state revenue at the cost of more bankruptcy, domestic violence, and gambling addictions

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 11, 1995

About the author

Robert N Goodman is Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London.

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprised there are no reviews of this at Goodreads, not even by the shills for the mob/gambling industry. Fantastic book. Anyone reading this still in support of state-sponsored casinos as a panacea is either tetched or employed by the mob/casino industry. One of the reasons I am so profoundly ambivalent about MA Gov. Deval Patrick is casino-pushing was one of his FIRST acts as a governor...real signs of a lack of ideas, proposing theft as an economic policy...