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Wise Crowds

Rod Fort’s challenge to anyone who could outdo college football preseason polls (Not Exactly Julian Simon …) reminded me about a Henry Manne piece appearing …

Negotiations over the Vikings

Negotitations over the Minnesota Vikings are reaching a head. At this point, Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler has exclusive negotiating rights with Red McCombs, the current …

Sunk Costs in Baseball

A sunk cost is an unavoidable sacrifice: no matter what a person does, the sacrifice will be made and it’s best to ignore them. JC …

Olympic TV Ratings in the US

ABC’s Dancing with the Stars olympically outdistanced the Winter Games on Americans’ telly dials last night: “Stars” averaged 27.1 million total viewers over two hours …

It’s just not cricket

Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the series is completed will depend …

A Response to bobby and Phil

My colleague Phil recently highlighted a comment by bobby, one of our many great readers. Bobby is concerned that we here at TSE tend to focus …

MLB and collusion

After being found guilty of collusion several times in the 1980s and 1990s, including being assessed millions of dollars in damages, one would think MLB …