Predicting the Fall in the Spring
Like all sports fans, I want to know the future. I don’t want to wait around until October to see who will win the World …
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The "I Don’t Know" Argument
Generally I teach The Economics of Sports in the Winter Quarter at Cal-State Bakersfield. The quarter begins the first week of January or right around …
Competing for basketball and football players
In its written response to a Congressional inquiry over its tax-exempt status, the NCAA reveals that it spends more than twice as much per male …
Questions from The Blind Side
Two years ago Michael Lewis published Moneyball, the story of the improbable success of the Oakland A’s. For sports economists this book sparked much discussion …
Step up, or step down
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars. St. Cloud State (SCSU) is a Division II athletic program except in ice hockey, where there is no Division II and …
Underrated Sports: Three Events That Should Attract Bigger Audiences
Sports fans are spoilt for choice in 2018, with increased access to more sporting events than ever before. Television subscriptions, live streaming services and the …
The Purpose of College Athletics
King Banaian already commented on this issue, but I thought I would toss in my two cents. Myles Brand argued in a letter to Congress …
The Father of Sports Economics Passed Away Without Notice
In 1956, the Journal of Political Economy published Simon Rottenberg’s seminal piece in sports economics, “The Baseball Players’ Labor Market.” In researching a commemorative piece …
Racial Discrimination in the NBA
For Martin Luther King Day, Gregory Mankiw has published an excerpt from his textbook at his blog. The excerpt details research on the extent of …
I Guess Sports Economists Will Always Have A Job…
My favorite principles teacher used to start all of his “real world” lessons with, “I guess economists will always have a job.” He would then …