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"This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can...
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regulatory theory / Matt Nichol -- 5. Regulating player agents / Lisa Masteralexis -- Part II the employment relations of …
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Events: Theory and Practice, Journal of Sports Economics, 8 (2), 165-182. -- Barros C.P. (2006), Evaluating Sport Events at …. Lang (2008), Overinvestment in Team Sports Leagues: A Contest Theory Model, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 55 (3 …-239. -- Torgler B. (2004), The Economics of the FIFA Football World Cup, Kyklos, 57 (2), 287-300. -- Vrooman J. (2007), Theory of the …
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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...
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This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also presents some of the world's principal...
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Including an array of distinguished contributors, this novel book fills a gap in the literature by addressing an important, yet under-researched, issue in the field of sports economics. It places great emphasis on the notion that sport is a significant component for improving the happiness,...
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For decades, sports economics has been set within the framework of equilibrium economics, in particular when modelling team sport leagues. Based on a conviction that this does not reflect real life, this book addresses a gap in the literature and opens up a new research area by applying concepts...
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pt. 1. Public policy and sports economics -- pt. 2. Economic theory and team sports -- pt. 3. Cost-benefit analysis and …
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1. Sports economics and the sports industry: perspectives in economic history / John K. Wilson -- 2. The evolution of professional team sports / Richard Pomfret -- 3. The very short tenure of foreign players in Japanese professional baseball, 1951-2004 / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix -- 4....
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"Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered introductions to the key principles in business, expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint the essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that...
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