Full Description
The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. Thoroughly updated to reflect the current sports landscape, The Economics of Sports introduces core economic concepts and theories and applies them to American and international sports.
Updates for this sixth edition include:
More coverage of international sports, including European football;
A revised chapter on competitive balance, reflecting new techniques;
A brand-new chapter on mega-events such as the Olympics and World Cup;
New material on umpire bias;
A completely redesigned chapter on amateur competition that focuses exclusively on intercollegiate sports. This chapter is also now modular, enabling instructors who wish to intersperse it with the other chapters to do so with greater ease.
This accessible text is supported by a companion website which includes resources for students and instructors. It is the perfect text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on sports economics.
Contents
Part I: Introduction and Review of Economic Concepts
1. Economics and Sports
2. Review of the Economist's Arsenal
Part II: The Industrial Organization of Sports
3. Sports Leagues and Franchises
4. Monopoly and Antitrust
5. Competitive Balance
Part III: Public Finance and Sports
6. The Public Finance of Sports: Who Benefits and How?
7. The Public Finance of Sports: Who Pays and Why?
8. Mega-Events
Part IV: The Labor Economics of Sports
9. An Introduction to Labor Markets in Professional Sports
10. Labor Market Imperfections
11. Discrimination
Part V: Sports in the Not-for-Profit Sector
12. The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports
