This large two-volume work on sports economics provides sixty-one articles on current scholarship in a wide variety of subjects related to the management, finance, and secondary effects of
large scale professional sports operations. Volume one is divided into sections covering the economic significance of sports markets; the economic impacts of sporting events and facilities; and
economic design, finance and efficiency of professional sports. Volume two covers competitive balance and attendance, sports labor relations, game theory and sports, international sports
economics, and economic dysfunction. Articles include abstracts, example calculations, illustrations, and notes. All entries in this set have been previously published in a wide variety of
academic and trade journals. The contributors are academics from a variety of institutions around the world. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
