An economist goes to the game : how to throw away $580 million and other surprising insights from the economics of sports
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An economist goes to the game : how to throw away $580 million and other surprising insights from the economics of sports
Yale University Press, c2022
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
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Includes index
Contents of Works
- Prologue
- Should you help your kid become a pro athlete?
- What do Silicon Valley and Czech women's tennis have in common?
- Why do athletes lie and cheat?
- Are athletes worth all that money?
- Why do athletes use their least successful moves so often?
- How does discrimination lead to a proliferation of French Canadian goalies?
- How do ticket scalpers make the world a better place?
- Why should you be upset if your hometown hosts the Olympics?
- Who wins when people gamble?
- Epilogue

