Election Promises and Sports Funding
As Australia approaches another federal election, the topic of sports funding has gained significant attention. With the election date expected to be announced soon, political …
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Indian Premier League Cricket – Player Auction
Cricket is a game of many forms. At the international level, there is Test Cricket (5 days, theoretically 450 overs for the match and two …
Special Issues of Note
Two recent publications may be of interest to readers of The Sports Economist. 1. The journal Economic Analysis and Policy (2009, vol. 39(2)), has a …
Sports Law & Economics
Much of the scholarly work of sports economists would be reasonably categorised as “law & economics” type work. So recently, when our friends at the …
New Journal: International Journal of Sport Policy
A colleague of mine on the editorial board of this new journal has alerted me to the impending debut of the International Journal of Sport …
Will cricket outpay soccer?
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is creating some interesting financial headlines. Today at foxsports.com.au and in the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper, the head of the …
NFL collective bargaining
Could the NFL be a salary cap-free league in 2010? The NFL team owners or the NFL Players’ Association can unilaterally terminante the collective bargaining …
New Poster from Australia
Hello everyone, Rob Macdonald here. Skip has invited me to contribute some posts with an Australian flavour. I look forward to bringing some stories to …
Show me the Money
Show me the money #1 The salary data for the New York Yankees (see below) makes for an interesting contrast to the recently released Business …
Drugs in Sport Debate and Union Organisation
Drugs. As always they are a hot topic. But in Australia this year, the central focus of the debate has been on testing for ‘illicit’ …