Sports economics for non-economists

The sports business is different -- Our tool kit : theory, concepts and numbers -- Commodification : has money ruined sport? -- Mass participation, sports clubs and commercial amateurism -- Professional recruitment, earnings and labour relations -- Sportswomen and gender economics -- Attendances and audiences -- Seeking profit or utility : objectives of owners and entrepreneurs -- Tournaments and leagues -- Sponsorship, stadiums, and subsidies -- The economics of sport mega events -- The global sports economy : trading goods, player migration and international organisations -- Medals, health and welfare, and the third sector -- Corruption, environmental unsustainability and discrimination -- The virus and after : coping with crisis.