Arguments are being made and law suits being filed to loosen national regulation of gambling in Europe, and to establish Union-wide regulation that would allow more international competition. Academics are now joining economic operators and government regulators in addressing the issue. Here economists from Europe and North America explore economic aspects of regulating gambling, with such discussions as lessons learned from the cost-benefit analysis of casinos, consumer interests and the taxation of gambling, and how an American casino broke the monopoly in Maastricht. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)