Lotteries

Author : Alan J. Karcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000662225
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lotteries written by Alan J. Karcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic pressure on states in the 1980s have led a number in this country to market lotteries in an unprecedentedly aggressive manner. This book was inspired by the author's experience with the New Jersey state lottery during a period of major growth. Karcher examines lotteries from a historical, psychological, and philosophical perspective, offering a reflective and cogent explanation of their popularity. He looks at the fluctuating popularity of state-sponsored gambling and the consequent peaking and fattening of revenues, exposing the measures lottery commissions sometimes take in order to increase revenues.Self policed lottery commissions, he predicts, will resort to marketing abuses and increasingly prey upon the poor if they are given unbridled power to act. Karcher suggests thoughtful, easily implemented, and constructive reforms. As more state governments inevitably turn to lotteries as a way out of tax dilemmas, this book will contribute to the public discourse on this important policy issue.

Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199269556
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Lotteries written by John Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Lotteries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neal Millikan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136674454
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lotteries in Colonial America written by Neal Millikan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 021508442X
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HC 615 - Society Lotteries written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society lotteries are intended to be primarily a means of raising money for charities and other good causes. The vast majority are small, often local, and raise sums of money that, though not substantial, are vital for the work of the organisations they support. The Gambling Act 2005 relaxed some of the restrictions on such lotteries. This was not a cause of concern until the recent launch of some larger, 'umbrella' lotteries, advertised nationally, run by commercial operations and giving close to the statutory minimum percentage of the proceeds of ticket sales to the good causes they supported. These are controversial in part because they are alleged to stretch the definition of a society lottery as primarily intended to raise money for good causes, and in part because they are seen by some as direct competitors to the National Lottery. As a result, there have been calls for restrictions to be imposed on large society lotteries, while others have suggested the success of the umbrella lotteries could be replicated elsewhere if regulations on society lotteries were relaxed. The Committee has been guided in its approach by the principle that the regulatory regime governing society lotteries should encourage the maximum return to good causes and, provided that the lottery remains focused on its primary purpose, the licensing regime should be light, including continued exemption from gambling and lottery taxes. Accordingly, the Committee recommends greater differentiation between the regulations applied to the great majority of lotteries, which are small and local, and those applied to larger ones, especially those run on behalf of the good causes by commercial organisations, which tend to return smaller proportions of their funds to the charity than single-cause lotteries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Conducted Lotteries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Claims and Governmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Conducted Lotteries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Claims and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophie Raux
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004358811
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries written by Sophie Raux and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture investigates lotteries as an atypical and popular form of the art trade, and as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries (15th-17th centuries).

Author : Conall Boyle
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845406559
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lotteries for Education written by Conall Boyle and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described. But lottery selection teaches lessons too; now we can find proper answers to controversial questions like "Does choice work?" This book will be of interest to parents, pupils and teachers as well as educational administrators. Any student applying for admission to a university course should learn about the amazing weighted lottery for entry to medical schools in the Netherlands. There is a better way: it's a lottery!

Author : Thomas Gataker
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 184540730X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Uses of Lotteries written by Thomas Gataker and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important treatise is often referred to, but is generally inaccessible due to its rarity and old-style of language. The text of this edition has been fully modernised, with notes on important sources used by Gataker and includes a new introduction.