University of Helsinki
The book Setting Limits. Gambling, Science and Public Policy, which gathers evidence on gambling policy, has finally been published.
The book describes how the scientific study of gambling behavior, the gambling industry and the regulation of gambling can contribute to gambling policy and the public good from an international perspective.
The work can be seen as a continuation of a series of public health oriented monographs on evidence-based policy that started in 1975 with Alcohol Control Policies in Public Health Perspective by Kettil Bruun and others, and has continued with Alcohol Policy and the Public Good by Griffith Edwards and others in 1997, and include most recently Alcohol – No Ordinary Commodity (2003) and Drug Policy and the Public Good (2010) by Thomas Babor and colleagues. “Setting Limits” (2019) presents a global view of the emerging epidemic of gambling problems focusing on evidence from interdisciplinary research.
The book is available for purchase in hardcopy or as an e-book.
Author list: Pekka Sulkunen (CEACG), Thomas F. Babor, Jenny Cisneros Ornberg, Michael Egerer (CEACG), Matilda Hellman (CEACG), Charles Livingstone, Virve Marionneau (CEACG), Janne Nikkinen (CEACG), Jim Orford, Robin Room, and Ingeborg Rossow