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Risky Business: A Few Provocations on the Regulation of Electronic Gaming Machines

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  • Charles Livingstone
  • Richard Woolley

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Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) proliferate in Australian club and hotel venues, generating revenues of billions of dollars annually and accounting for the majority of gambling expenditure. These revenues arguably rely on unsafe consumption practices, generating considerable harm. Clear evidence is available describing unsafe levels of EGM consumption by regular EGM consumers in hotels and clubs, and indicating modifications to EGM technology and systems to minimize harm. However, a comfortable orthodoxy, the discourse of 'business as usual', perpetuates current arrangements, sustaining in particular a model of the 'problem' gambler as an individualized flawed consumer. The article argues that the marketing and distribution of EGMs is neither accidental nor something for which the individual is responsible, and neither is the safeguarding of oneself from the harm produced by goods licensed by government. Pursuit of a goal of safe consumption for all EGM gamblers requires disruption of the discourse of business as usual.

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  • Charles Livingstone & Richard Woolley, 2007. "Risky Business: A Few Provocations on the Regulation of Electronic Gaming Machines," International Gambling Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 361-376, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intgms:v:7:y:2007:i:3:p:361-376
    DOI: 10.1080/14459790701601810
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    1. Barry Scholnick & Hyungsuk Byun, 2016. "Do Slot Machines Cause Bankruptcy? A Regulatory Natural Experiment with Exogenous Changes to Slot Locations," ERSA conference papers ersa16p607, European Regional Science Association.
    2. Paul Delfabbro, 2013. "Problem And Pathological Gambling: A Conceptual Review," Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, University of Buckingham Press, vol. 7(3), pages 35-53.
    3. Rohan Miller & Grant Michelson, 2013. "Fixing the Game? Legitimacy, Morality Policy and Research in Gambling," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 116(3), pages 601-614, September.
    4. Linda Hancock & Natalie Ralph & Florentine Petronella Martino, 2018. "Applying Corporate Political Activity (CPA) analysis to Australian gambling industry submissions against regulation of television sports betting advertising," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(10), pages 1-21, October.
    5. May CI van Schalkwyk & Nason Maani & Martin McKee & Samantha Thomas & Cécile Knai & Mark Petticrew, 2021. "“When the Fun Stops, Stop”: An analysis of the provenance, framing and evidence of a ‘responsible gambling’ campaign," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(8), pages 1-19, August.
    6. Martin Young & Francis Markham, 2015. "Beyond disclosure: gambling research, political economy, and incremental reform," International Gambling Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(1), pages 6-9, April.
    7. Hyungsuk Byun & Barry Scholnick, 2017. "Spatial Commitment Devices and Addictive Goods: Evidence from the Removal of Slot Machines from Bars," Working Papers 17-34, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

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