Journal article
The Problem with Problem Gambling: Historical and Economic Concerns
Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Vol.8(1), pp.1-16
2003
Abstract
Gambling, taken to be the staking of money on the outcome of events of chance, pervades all human existence. Recent expansion of legal gambling has given rise to an equally massive expansion in gambling research, with a focus on 'problem' gambling and its pathological and addictive aspects. This paper proposes that in the long transition of capitalism in the twentieth century, gambling emerged as a final stage of consumer expenditure. It proposes that the research response to this market remains tied to an earlier phase of capitalist accumulation, when gambling threatened production. In reviewing the history of gambling research, this paper proposes a reconception of gambling along economic rather than psychological lines and suggests that an older ethnographic tradition of research ought to replace the highly medicalised focus driving much current policy.
Details
- Title
- The Problem with Problem Gambling: Historical and Economic Concerns
- Authors
- Peter Slade (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of BusinessChris McConville (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Vol.8(1), pp.1-16
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University, Centre for Policy Research
- Date published
- 2003
- ISSN
- 1325-2224
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2003 The Authors. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448821102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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