The political economy of professional sport

Jean-François Bourg, Jean-Jacques Gouguet ; translated by Gerry Goodman

This timely book offers a critical interpretation of the traditional social and economic accounts of sport. It provides an incisive analysis of professional sport and defines alternative foundations to the present model. The authors demonstrate that professional sport is an extremely complex phenomenon encompassing many unique factors depending on its global reach, financing and organization

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Alternative title:	Économie politique du sport professionnel
Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Bourg, Jean-François
Other Persons:	Gouguet, Jean-Jacques (contributor)
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (contributor)
Publisher:	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
Subject:	Profisport \| Professional sports \| Sportökonomik \| Sports economics \| Sportökonomie \| Politische Ökonomie

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (vi, 260 p) ill
Series:	New horizons in the economics of sport Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-84980-783-8 ; 9781847209566 (hardback) ; 1847209564 (hbk.)
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781849807838 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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