In this open access book the cost and revenue overruns of Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to PyeongChang 2018 from eight years before the Games to Games-time are investigated to provide a base for future host cities. The authors evaluated the development of expenditure and revenues of the...

This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport. The standard economic theory (economics of crime, game theory) is introduced alongside the economic methods (sanctions, etc.) which are currently derived from it to combat corrupt sport and their...

1. Global criminal networking in sport: online betting-related match-fixing -- 2. Challenging standard economics and policies -- 3. Doping: which economic crime in sport? -- 4. Moving beyond inefficient policies to combat doping -- 5. Conclusion

1. A roadmap to economic violations of sport rules and the law -- 2. Sport manipulations: breaching the sport rules to gain advantage -- 3. Economic dysfunctions of sport: violating managerial rules and the law -- 4. Economic distortions: infringing human rights in sport -- 5. Conclusion

Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4:...