Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America

Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America

Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America

Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America

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Overview

Written by a lawyer and an economist, Governing Fortune summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. The book sets forth an innovative proposal for the licensing of gamblers as a means to balance the liberty interests of individuals against the social costs generated from problem gambling behavior. Morse and Goss offer both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry and accessible data about every aspect of the gaming environment, including the impact of gambling on economic and social environments.

"Goss and Morse provide an outstandingly sound economic understanding of the function and place of casinos in American society, including essential heretofore unavailable grounding in the legal issues that the book accomplishes remarkably effectively. Moreover, this wealth of economic and legal information is transmitted in an engaging and readable manner. Scholarly, thoughtfully collected and authoritative, the book is of interest to any learner of the gambling industry, including students, civic activists, legislators, and scholars."
— Earl Grinols, Baylor University

"In this book, Morse and Goss make important contributions to our understanding of the negative outcomes of the expansion of gambling in America."
— Jon Bruning, Nebraska Attorney General

Edward A. Morse is Professor of Law and holder of the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in Business Law at Creighton University School of Law. Ernest P. Goss is Professor of Economics and MacAllister Chair at Creighton University and was a 2004 scholar-in-residence with the Congressional Budget Office.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472069651
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 03/15/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Edward A. Morse is Professor of Law and holder of the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in Business Law at Creighton University School of Law.

Ernest P. Goss is Professor of Economics and MacAllister Chair at Creighton University and was a 2004 scholar-in-residence with the Congressional Budget Office.

Table of Contents

Figures.

Contributors.

Introduction: Making Connections (Lorna Hardwick, Open University and Christopher Stray, University of Wales).

Part I: Reception within Antiquity and Beyond.

1. Reception and Tradition (Felix Budelmann, Open University and Johannes Haubold, Durham University).

2. The Ancient Reception of Homer (Barbara Graziosi, Durham University).

3. Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art (Chris Emlyn-Jones, Open University).

4. ‘Respectable in its ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern (Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool).

5. Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy (Ruth Webb, Birkbeck College and Université Paris X).

Part II: Transmission, Acculturation and Critique.

6. 'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canons, Class and Ideology (Seth L. Schein, University of California).

7. Gladstone on the Classics (David W. Bebbington, University of Stirling).

8. Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s (Emily Greenwood, University of St Andrews).

9. Virgilian Contexts (Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College and University of Oxford).

Part III: Translation.

10. Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope's Iliad (David Hopkins, University of Bristol).

11. Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics (Ahmed Etman, Cairo University).

12. 'Enough Give in It': Translating the Classical Play (J. Michael Walton, University of Hull).

13. Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour (James Robson, Open University).

Part IV: Theory and Practice.

14. Making It New: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth (Cashman Kerr Prince, University of Southern California).

15. 'What Difference Was Made?': Feminist Models of Reception (Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol).

16. History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed (Miriam Leonard, University College, London).

17. Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization (Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol).

Part V: Performing Arts.

18. Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera (Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle, Australia).

19. Performance Histories (Fiona Macintosh, St Cross College, University of Oxford).

20. ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage (Angeliki Varakis, University of Kent).

21. The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy (Freddy Decreus, University of Ghent).

22. Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians (Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University).

Part VI: Film.

23. Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies (Joanna Paul, University of Liverpool).

24. The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods (Hanna M. Roisman, Colby College, Maine).

25. A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics (Marianne McDonald, University of California).

Part VII: Cultural Politics.

26. Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale (Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck College, University of London).

27. 'You unleash the tempest of tragedy': The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Gonda van Steen, University of Arizona).

28. Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first centuries (Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham).

29. Putting the Class into Classical Reception (Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London).

Part VIII: Changing Contexts.

30. Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden (Gregson Davis, Duke University, North Carolina).

31. 'Plato's Stepchildren': SF and the Classics (Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge).

32. Aristotle’s Ethics Old and New (Rosalind Hursthouse, University of Auckland).

33. Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition (Bryan E. Burns, University of Southern California).

34. Homer in British World War One Poetry (Elizabeth Vandiver, Whitman College, Walla Walla).

Part IX: Reflection and Critique.

35. Reception Studies: Future Prospects (James I. Porter, University of Michigan).

Bibliography.

Index.

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