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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

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  • João Ramos

    (School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia)

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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.

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  • João Ramos, 2009. "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," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(3), pages 467-469, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecanpo:v39:y:2009:i:3:p:467-469
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    Keywords

    doping; economics of sport; illegal activities;
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    JEL classification:

    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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