----- Original Message ----- From: "Heer, Jeet (National Post)" <JHeer at nationalpost.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:15 AM Subject: gambling
> Does anyone know any academics who study
gambling, lotteries, etc. and their
> social effects. It could be from any of a number
of fields: economics,
> sociology, history, etc. Thanks, Jeet Heer
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Two excellent recent analyses of one kind of gambling are:
"Stabilizing an Unstable Economy" by Hyman Minsky
"Wall Street" by Doug Henwood
For a larger history try Ian Hacking's "The Emergence of Probability" which will have some really good references.
Ian