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Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
7-6-2018
Publisher
UNLV Center for Gaming Research
Abstract
In this July 6, 2018 Colloquium Talk, Simpson discusses how the former Portuguese city-state, and now Chinese Special Administrative Region, of Macau has been transformed into the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming, with annual revenues five times greater than those produced on the Las Vegas Strip. He positions Macau’s contemporary gaming industry within the city’s 500 year history as a Portuguese territory, and its crucial role in two eras of global capitalism: capitalism’s origins in European maritime trade, and its current guise in China’s emergent market-socialist regime and analyzes the productive role of Macau’s ambiguous sovereignty in the city’s casino industry, and the city’s function in the development of Chinese capitalism.
Keywords
Macau; Chinese capitalism; gambling revenue
Disciplines
Gaming and Casino Operations Management
File Format
mp5
File Size
67.780 KB
Run Time
00:48:08
Language
English
Repository Citation
Simpson, T.
(2018).
From Casino Wars to Casino Capitalism: Sovereignty and Gaming in Macau.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/gaming_podcasts/88
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Comments
mp3 audio file size: 24 megabytes; 26 minutes