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We argue that a deeper understanding of the political and cultural economy of gambling environments is necessary, and provide a synoptic overview of the conditions upon which gambling expansion is based. This perspective highlights parallels with the wider global economy of finance capital, as well as the significance of intensified consumption, of which gambling is an exemplary instance. It also reveals the existence of a geo\u2010political dispersal of \u2018harms\u2019, conceived as deteriorations of financial, temporal and social relationships, which disproportionately affect vulnerable social groups. 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