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 researchers' views on the unanswered questions that face us today. Issues covered include:
* sport in the economy
* the demand for sport
* cost-benefit analysis of sport
* sporting governance and the state
* individualistic sports
* team sports
* dysfunctions in sport including discrimination, doping and corruption.
It is an indispensable guide to one of the most lively and rapidly evolving fields of economics.
- ISBN:
- 9781843766087
- 9781843766087
-
Category:
- Economics
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
-
21-12-2006
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 848
- Dimensions (mm):
- 244x169mm
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