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The Economics of Sports

ISBN: 9780201700978 | 0201700972
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Economics of Sports is the first textbook written for this course and is eagerly awaited by professors, department chairs, and students alike. Until now, professors have patched together chapters from economics texts and trade books about sports, leaving the students without the instructional guide they need and without a central economics focus. In this new comprehensive text, Michael Leeds and Peter von Allmen introduce the essential core economic concepts and then develop them with examples and applications from the sports industry. Thre... MORE
Detailed contentsix
Prefacexv
PART I Introduction and Review of Economic Concepts1(66)
Introduction
3(10)
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Review of the Economist's Arsenal
13(54)
PART II The Industrial Organization of Sports67(82)
Sports Franchises as Profit-Maximizing Firms
69(42)
Monopoly and Antitrust
111(38)
PART III Public Finance and Sports149(74)
The Public Finance of Sports: The Market for Sports Franchises
151(36)
The Costs and Benefits of a Franchise to a City
187(36)
PART IV The Labor Economics of Sports223(180)
An Introduction to Labor Markets and Competitive Balance in Professional Sports
225(62)
Labor Unions and Labor Relations
287(34)
Discrimination
321(34)
The Economics of Amateurism and College Sports
355(48)
Works Cited403(16)
Index419

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