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Earl Grinols (born 1951) is an American economist, political scientist, and author, currently serves as Distinguished Professor of
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Biography

Grinols was born in
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, and attended the
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for undergraduate study, and then the
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, receiving degrees from the latter in economics and mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. from
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in 1977. Grinols has taught or held positions at
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, the
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,
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, the
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, and the Department of the Treasury in addition to
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. He was Senior Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1994 testimony to Congress,Earl L. Grinols, “Time for a National Policy,” Congressional Testimony, Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One hundred Third Congress, Hearing on the National impact of Casino Gambling Proliferation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995, Serial 103-104, 8-11, 76. Grinols was one of the first academicians to recommend the formation of a national commission on gambling. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was formed two years later in 1996, and issued its report, among other recommendations calling for a moratorium on the expansion of
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in 1999. In 2004 Grinols' third book, ''Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits'' was published by
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. His work "Casinos, Crime, and Community Costs" studied all 3,165 counties in the United States for a twenty-year period to establish statistical links between casinos and FBI Index I crime.


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Baylor Business Directory entry on Earl Grinols, including selected bibliography
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