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Internet gambling offshore : Caribbean struggles over casino capitalism / Andrew F. Cooper.

By:

Cooper, Andrew Fenton, 1950- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: International political economy seriesPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xvii, 201 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

023029345X
9780230293458

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.4779502854678 22

LOC classification:

HV6722.C27 C66 2011

Contents:

Introduction: reconfiguring casino capitalism -- Virtual vice or innovative virtue? -- The US takes a hard line: stigmatizing the internet gambling industry -- Antigua responds: the commercialization of diplomacy -- Taking the struggle (through the WTO) to the US -- The global reach of the "Big Chill" on internet gambling -- The big implications of a small but straddling case.

Summary: "In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the United States and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of "Casino Capitalism.""-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	306.4820972974 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A276088B

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the United States and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of "Casino Capitalism.""-- Provided by publisher.

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