"Statement of Professor John Warren Kindt, Univ. Ill., to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, ""U.S. and International Concerns over the Socio-Economic Costs of Legalized Gambling: Greater than the Illegal Drug Problem?"""
Kindt, John Warren
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Title
"Statement of Professor John Warren Kindt, Univ. Ill., to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, ""U.S. and International Concerns over the Socio-Economic Costs of Legalized Gambling: Greater than the Illegal Drug Problem?"""
Author(s)
Kindt, John Warren
Issue Date
1998-05
Keyword(s)
Gambling
Economics
Costs
Crime
Abstract
Knowing that legalized gambling has a zero-sum economic effect (except for increased socioeconomic
costs) in its market, gambling proponents focus public attention on the wrong market--
that is the local market instead of the strategic/regional market. Only in the most unusual
hypothetical would the strategic regional benefits gained from legalized gambling outweigh the
socio-economic costs. Like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling
overwhelm the benefits. Via the meta-language model, the McDougall/Lasswell methodology of
policy-oriented jurisprudence confirms this conclusion and the analysis.
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