PLAYBOOKS AND CHECKBOOKS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ECONOMICS, OF MODERN SPORTS, S. Szymanski, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2009, 225 pages. ISBN 978-0-691-12750-7

João Ramos
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João Ramos: School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2009, vol. 39, issue 3, 467-469

Abstract: Simon Rottenberg is credited with starting the literature on sports economics in 1956 with his analysis of major league baseball’s labour market. Over fifty years later, sports economics has evolved from the study of sports labour markets to the sophisticated use of sports datasets to test previously unexplored hypotheses in the growing fields of sportometrics and forensic econometrics (see McCormick and Tollison 1984 and Duggan and Levitt 2002). Stefan Szymanski’s Playbooks and Checkbooks gives an engaging overview of how economics can help explain the phenomenon that is modern-day professional sports which is coupled with relevant historical anecdotes.

Keywords: doping; economics of sport; illegal activities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D82 I12 K42 L83 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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