Public Policy and Professional Sports

John K. Wilson and Richard Pomfret

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Abstract: Public Policy and Professional Sports is a comprehensive analysis of public policy aspects of the economics of professional sports, supported by in-depth international case studies. It covers regulation and competition in the sports industry and its labour markets, public spending on stadiums and mega-events, and governance issues including unethical behaviour (corruption, doping, etc). The innovative feature of the work is the combination of economic analysis and well-known international examples with detailed case studies of public policy as it relates to sport in Australia. Australia is an excellent case study due to the high profile of sport in the national psyche and the range of popular professional sports.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781782546238
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-14

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Ch 2 The industry structure of team sports , pp 17-39

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Ch 3 Labour markets , pp 40-68

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Ch 4 Stadium funding , pp 71-85

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Ch 5 Economic benefits of mega-events , pp 86-99

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Ch 6 Mega-event bidding , pp 100-114

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Ch 7 Unethical behaviour in sport , pp 117-138

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Ch 8 Regulating governing bodies , pp 139-151

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Ch 9 Conclusions , pp 152-155

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