Bøker av Richard McGowan

The American cigarette industry is again facing enormous pressure from various groups whose goal is a smoke free society.

Meanwhile, Internet gambling, more or less regulated at home, has found willing government sponsors abroad-removing an ever-larger segment of the industry from U.S. government jurisdiction and recasting the gambling debate. Using this book, citizens can:Learn the ethical and rhetorical framework of the gambling debate.

This is the third book in what the author calls his sin trilogy: the gambling, tobacco, and alcohol industries. Similar to the gambling and tobacco industries, the alcohol industry is one in which the business and public policy processes are intimately linked.

This is must reading for those operating lotteries, state legislators, vendors to state lottery commissions, taxpayers, and scholars in public policy and government. The whole question of state-sponsored gambling is explored, integrating both the business and policy strategies of operating a state lottery.

This book offers an expert examination of the ideology and motives behind the privatization or the nationalization of an industry, based on real case studies.