In this comprehensive Handbook, John Goddard and Peter Sloane present a collection of analytical contributions by internationally regarded scholars in the field, which extensively examine the many economic challenges facing the world's most popular team sport. The Handbook is naturally divided...

Public Policy and Professional Sports is a comprehensive analysis of public policy aspects of the economics of professional sports, supported by in-depth international case studies. It covers regulation and competition in the sports industry and its labour markets, public spending on stadiums...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Understanding economics through the history of sport / John Wilson -- 2. From recreational sports clubs to sports businesses: Bradford and Queen's Park football clubs 1860s-1914 / John Dewhirst and Wray Vamplew -- 3. Home ground advantage: The determinants of sharing...