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...

Economic literature describes the Superstar phenomenon as the situation where a small number of individuals enjoy high incomes and obtain predominant market shares in their activity. Two theoretical methods are favoured, because of the complementary way that they can explain this double benefit....