The Luck Business

by Robert Goodman

Overview

In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business, which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very communities that have looked to it as a panacea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684831824
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	11/06/1996
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert Goodman is Lemelson Professor of Environment Design and Planning at Hampshire college and a former columnist for the Boston Globe. He is the author of After the Planners and The Last Entrepreneurs: America’s Regional Wars for Jobs and Dollars, as well as numerous articles on urban planning and economic policy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.