Abstract
This book is an attempt to provide better information on which to base future decisions on the role of gambling in society. It includes numerous chapters realting to basic research on gambling's social, psychological and economic implications.
Part One: THE LEGALIZATION OF GAMBLING
1. Gambling: Historical Highlights and Trends and their Implications for Contemporary Society - Darrell W. Bolen
2. The Legalization of Gambling in the United States: An Analysis and Forecast - Duane V. Burke
3. Some Observations on Legalized Gambling - William R. Eadington
4. Sports, Technology, and Gambling - Richard J. Schuetz, Jr.
Part Two: THE ECONOMICS OF GAMBLING
5. The Economics of Gambling - George Ignatin and Robert F. Smith
6. Economic Rationality, Psychology and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty - Theodore Tsukahara, Jr. and Harold J. Brumm, Jr.
7. The Market for Pro Football Betting - Michael E. Canes
8. Economic Aspects of Nevada's Gaming Industry - William R. Eadington
9. The Business of Gaming: An Insider's View - J. George Drews
10. Profitability and Behavior of the Gaming Industry Relative to the Stock Market - James J. Noel and Stuart E. Curtis
Part Three: THE SOCIOLOGY OF GAMBLING
11. The Propensity to Gamble: Some Structural Determinants - Wen Lang Li and Martin H. Smith
12. Motivations to Gamble: The Model of Roger Caillois - Robert D. Herman
13. Gambling, A Positive View - Felicia Florine Campbell
14. Alienation from Work: A Study of Casino Card Dealers - Ronald W. Smith, Frederick W. Preston and Harry L. Humphries
Part Four: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GAMBLING
15. How Gambling Saved Me from a Misspent Sabbatical - Igor Kusyszyn
16. Who Wants to be a Professional Gambler? - David P. Campbell
17. A Functional Analysis of Gambling Behavior - Terry J. Knapp
18. Searching for the Motivations in Risk Taking and Gambling - Eric S. Knowles
19. Individual Differences in Casino Gambling - D. Michael Kuhlman
20. Risk-Taking in the Presence of Others: Blackjack in the Laboratory and in the Field - G. P. Ginsburg, James J. Blascovich and Rene' C. Howe
21. Compulsive Gambling and the Conscious Mood Perspective - Tomas Martinez
22. Excitement: The Gambler's Drug - William H. Boyd
Part Five: THE MATHEMATICS OF GAMBLING
23. Optimum Strategy in Blackjack - A New Analysis - Edward Gordon
24. Nonlinear Programming, Simulation and Gambling Theory Applied to Blackjack - James N. Hanson
25. The Rate of Gain in Player Expectation for Card Games Characterized by Sampling Without Replacement and an Evaluation of Card Counting Systems - Peter A. Griffin
26. Probabilities And Strategies For The Game Of Faro - Edward O. Thorp
