Mark H. Maier. <bold>The Data Game: Controversies in Social Science Statistics</bold>, 3rd ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 332 pp.

This paper examines the role of Supporters Direct, a sports policy initiative launched by the British Labour government in 2000. The objective of Supporters Direct is to democratise football clubs by intervening in what it views as the unequal relationship that exists between the relatively...

This paper reports the results of an hedonic pricing analysis of a regional thoroughbred auction market, adding to a literature which has been built mainly on data from elite auction markets. The main contribution of the paper is the finding that the role of the dam in affecting yearling price,...

When supply and demand are recursive, with uncorrelated cross-equation errors, least-squares estimation has no simultaneous-equation bias. Supply to a daily fish market is determined by the previous night's catch; hence this would appear to be a good example of a recursive market. Despite this,...