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The Political Economy of World Heavyweight Boxing during the Great Depression

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  • Vlad ROŞCA

    (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies)

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The purpose of the paper is to show how boxing managed to remain an affordable and consumable good for the USAmerican citizens in the times of the Great Depression of 1929-1933, when industrial production was closing. Moreover, while other economic activities faced problems, boxing continued to produce money. The research analyzes the economic market of professional heavyweight boxing, presenting some of the tools that helped promoters produce and sell the fight shows to the consumers – like price discrimination and cartel agreements, for example, and, thus, helped generating incomes and assured money circulation in the economy.

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  • Vlad ROŞCA, 2012. "The Political Economy of World Heavyweight Boxing during the Great Depression," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 0(1(566)), pages 127-142, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:agr:journl:v:1(566):y:2012:i:1(566):p:127-142
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