Richard McGowan is Associate Professor of Operations and Strategic Management at Boston College and Research Associate at the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions. He received a D.B.A. in 1988 from Boston University. His research focuses on the interaction of business and public policy processes, especially as they relate to the gambling, tobacco, and alcohol industries. He has published five books: State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage (Quorum,1994); Business, Politics and Cigarettes: Multiple Levels, Multiple Agendas (Greenwood, 1995); Industry as a Player in the Social and Political Arenas (Quorum, 1996); The Search for Revenue and the Common Good: An Analysis of Government Regulation of the Alcohol Industry (Prager, 1997); and Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry (Edward Elgar, 2001). He is currently completing Dividing the Spoils: States and the Gambling Industry and is working on a book on the interaction of government with the accounting industry with Gregory Trompeter of Boston College’s Accounting Department.
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