Gambling and the American Moral Landscape
Alan Wolfe and Erik Owens, editors
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
Alan Wolfe and Erik Owens
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Part I: The New Politics and Policy of Gambling
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Ends and Means in State Lotteries: The Importance of a Good Cause
Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook
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The Politics of Sovereignty and Public Policy Toward Gambling
Michael Nelson
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Morality Policymaking and Indian Gaming: Negotiating a Different Terrain
Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven A. Light
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Gambling in the 21st Century: New Policies, Same Old Vice
R. Shep Melnick
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Part II: Individual Behavior, Social Impact
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Behavioral and Brain Measures of Risk-Taking
Rachel T.A. Croson, James Sundali, and Matthew Fox
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Gambling with the Family?
John P. Hoffmann
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A Neuropsychiatric Perspective on Gambling and Morality
Marc Potenza
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The Unproblematic Normalization of Gambling in America
John Dombrink
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Part III: Theology, Gambling and Risk
10. The Memory of Sin: Gambling in Jewish Law and Ethics
William Galston
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11. Grace and Gambling
Kathryn Tanner
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12. The Puzzling History of the Criminal Law of Gambling
David A. Skeel, Jr. and William Stuntz
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13. Playing and Praying: (and with Apologies to Tina Turner) What’s Luck Got
To Do with It?
Dwayne E. Carpenter
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Part IV: Gambling in American Culture
14. Beyond Pathology: The Cultural Meanings of Gambling
T. J. Jackson Lears
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15. Civic Values and “Education Lotteries”: The Irony of Funding Public Education
with Lottery Revenues
Erik Owens
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16. The Tale of Two “Sins”: Regulation of Gambling and Tobacco
Richard McGowan, S.J.
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17. The Culture War Issue that Never Was: Why the Right and Left Have
Overlooked Gambling
Alan Wolfe
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Contributors
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