Sep 16
The European Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG) held its tenth conference in Helsinki, September 9-12, 2014. Around three hundred people from all parts of the world participated and there were more than one hundred presentations. Virtually all aspects of gambling were covered: legislation, regulation, economics, problem gambling, prevention, treatment and cultural history. I …
Aug 29
The report Gambling advertising: A critical research review was written by Per Binde for the Responsible Gambling Trust in the UK. It was published in April, 2014. > Download the report The report has an appendix that lists empirical studies examining gambling advertising. Part A of the appendix lists 36 publications presenting studies that focus …
Jun 17
I will soon begin a study on problem gambling among employees in the financial sector. The Swedish Public Health Agency has financed the study, which is planned to run for one year. Why the financial sector? It’s because there are reasons to believe that problem gambling among employees in this occupational sector has particularly severe …
Jun 11
The recent issue of UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal includes an article of mine: Games of life and death: The judicial uses of dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden (for details, see below). Much of what I have written in recent years has been about problem gambling, but in this article I have returned …
May 28
The Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries Group has been organizing its annual “Responsible Gaming Academy” (RGA) since 2004. On May 22 the eleventh academy took place in Vienna. About 240 people attended. Among the presenters were Jeffrey Derevensky from Canada, Tobias Hayer from Germany and Neven Ricijaš from Croatia. I presented about gambling advertising, in …
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