Fifty years ago this Journal published Simon Rottenberg's "The Baseball Players' Labor Market," the first professional journal article in sports economics. In this retrospective we review some of his insights and analyses with regard to competitive balance, constraints on payroll and freedoms to...

We were invited to comment on William Becker's December 7, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Education essay entitled "How to Make Economics the Sexy Social Science." Although we aim to be helpful, no one should expect two cynical old economists to stick strictly to a standard of constructive comments....