Florida Lottery to Join PowerBall.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-7 July 2008-Florida Lottery to Join PowerBall(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Florida Lottery announced that it will join the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and add PowerBall to its portfolio of games starting in January 2009. Florida will become the 30th state to join...

3 Entertainment and Gtech Ink 'The Three Stooges' Lottery License Pact.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-3 Entertainment and Gtech Ink 'The Three Stooges' Lottery License Pact(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com 3 Entertainment, The Three Stooges brand owner, announced that it has signed Gtech Corporation to a licensing agreement for the highly successful Three Stooges brand lottery program.Numerous state lotteries,...

State lotteries and agency costs: hidden costs to nonparticipants.
Despite numerous criticisms, state lotteries continue to receive popular support. The popularity of lotteries is easy to comprehend when considered from the perspective of a self-interested individual. Individuals who desire to gamble view lotteries as a legal and readily available means to do so. Those who do not participate,...

Hitting the jackpot or hitting the skids: entertainment, poverty, and the demand for state lotteries.
The Maine State Lottery is proud of its commitment to providing the citizens of Maine with fun and exciting entertainment. --First sentence of the Maine State Lottery Homepage, July 2004 I Introduction ADAM SMITH WROTE in the Wealth of Nations that...

Getting there: commentary on "toward an integrative behavioral model of gambling" by Weatherly and Dixon.
Weatherly and Dixon have taken an important step by proposing a coherent behavior-analytic formulation of gambling to account for individual differences in the development of gambling problems. They rely on the cumulative and interactive effects of several well-established behavioral mechanisms to build their analysis. They also make a compelling...

How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation.
How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation By Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason 256 pages, Louisiana State University Press, $35.00 Michael Nelson and John Mason discuss the politics behind the lottery debate in light of several...

Pirates of the Caribbean: gambling and free trade.
IN MARCH, for the third time in three years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled against the United States in a gambling dispute with the nation of Antigua. A three-judge panel found that the recently enacted Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act runs afoul of global trade agreements because it...

Government lotteries are for suckers.
ITEM: The Nashville (Tenn.) City Paper for December 1, 2005, reported: "College students on a state lottery scholarship can breathe a sigh of relief. The state announced Wednesday that it expects to have enough money to fully fund the lottery scholarship program when it extends to all four collegiate...

Ethnicity, gender, and the theory of planned behavior: the case of playing the lottery.
This study uses the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain why some people play the lottery, and it examines how the TPB's variables and variable relationships differ due to ethnicity, or gender, or their interaction. A telephone interview conducted in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin resulted in data on...

Don't bet on it! How does a little gambling become a big problem?
Reese, 14, from Connecticut, bets on Ping-Pong, poker games, and even grades. He once wagered with his brother about the correct name of a brand of soft drink. "I love to gamble," says the high school freshman. "Everybody gambles." Reese is right. Studies show that 80 percent...