McGowan, Richard A.

RICHARD A. MCGOWAN is an Associate Professor at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he has worked with Massachusetts state legislators formulating public policies affecting the "sin" industries. His previous books for the Greenwood Publishing Group include State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage (Quorum 1994) and (with John F. Mahon) Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment (Quorum 1996). He is also the author of Government and the Transformati...