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Winners and Losers: Politics, Casino Gambling, and Development in Atlantic City

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  • Paul Teske
  • Bela Sur

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Legalized gambling has been embraced by a number of local economic development organizations as a panacea. This paper offers the example of Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a cautionary tale. We trace the politics of gambling in New Jersey and the city, the massive flow of capital into casinos, and the resulting flows of funds in the local economy. City residents have, at best, gained minimally from gambling; the area, including suburbs, has gained from in‐migration. However, even including such spillovers, gambling did not produce the expected gains. This apparent failure may be due to inadequate planning for the extremely rapid development associated with the massive flow of new private capital which followed legalization; the same risks exist with different major and rapid capital flows into local economies.

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  • Paul Teske & Bela Sur, 1991. "Winners and Losers: Politics, Casino Gambling, and Development in Atlantic City," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 10(2‐3), pages 130-137, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:10:y:1991:i:2-3:p:130-137
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1991.tb00101.x
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    1. Amy Lake & STEVEN DELLER, 1996. "The Socioeconomic Impacts of a Native American Casino," Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Papers 403, Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Department.
    2. Jamie Peck, 2017. "Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(2), pages 327-363, February.
    3. Douglas M. Walker & Peter T. Calcagno, 2013. "Casinos and political corruption in the United States: a Granger causality analysis," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(34), pages 4781-4795, December.

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