Gambling – no ordinary commodity

Alcohol: no ordinary commodity--a summary of the second edition.

This article summarizes the contents of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2nd edn). The first part of the book describes why alcohol is not an ordinary commodity, and reviews epidemiological data that establish alcohol as a major contributor to the global burden of disease, disability and death in high-, middle- and low-income countries. This section also documents how international beer and spir...

No ordinary time.

EDITORIAL What Price for an Extra-ordinary Commodity?

The Scottish Government can make laws independently of the London (Westminster) government, but taxation within the UK is not devolved. Thus, the Scottish Government, when proposing measures to reduce harm from alcohol, cannot raise alcohol-tax to increase the price of alcoholic beverages. Instead, especially to reduce the sale of very cheap alcoholic beverages such as industrial cider (Gill et...

Submission No 8 INQUIRY INTO IMPACT OF GAMBLING

No-loss gambling shows the speed of the unconscious.

This paper investigates the time it takes unconscious vs. conscious knowledge to form by using an improved "no-loss gambling" method to measure awareness of knowing. Subjects could either bet on a transparently random process or on their grammaticality judgment in an artificial grammar learning task. A conflict in the literature is resolved concerning whether unconscious rather than conscious k...