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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Includes index
収録内容
- 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
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内容説明
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field
"Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sorts of sports as well as across the globe, introducing fascinating observations."-Henry D. Fetter, Wall Street Journal
Are ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? Why do Koreans dominate women's golf, while Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate marathon racing? Why would Michael Jordan, the greatest player in basketball, pass to Steve Kerr for the game-winning shot?
Paul Oyer shows the many ways economics permeates the world of sports. His topics range from the business of sport to how great athletes use economic thinking to outsmart their opponents to why the world's greatest sports powerhouse (at least per capita) is not America or China but the principality of Liechtenstein. Economics explains why some sports cannot stop the use of performance-enhancing drugs while others can, why hundred-million-dollar player contracts are guaranteed in baseball but not in football, how one man was able to set the world of sports betting on its ear-and why it will probably never happen again. This book is an entertaining guide to how a bit of economics can make you a better athlete and a more informed fan.
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