An anonymous reader and I have corresponded considerably over the past month or two about the economics of North American professional sports, as compared with …
This is more Sports Statistician than Sports Economist, but, shooting down sports “folk wisdom” of the talking heads is one of my hobbies. Cold, Hard, …
Developers in Cincinnati are getting a subsidy to build a housing and shopping project, called “The Banks”, along Cincinnati’s waterfront . The project has not …
Thomas Sowell offers some strong views in light of the Mitchell report on Real Clear Politics — Steroid in Baseball: Say It Ain’t So. Here …
From Jeff Passan at Yahoo! sports: The Security and Exchange Commission on Thursday launched guided warheads at the Marlins, requesting the team’s financial records, communications with …
Frederic Bastiat’s broken windows fallacy: if a window maker breaks windows to increase business, he certainly benefits (if he doesn’t get busted, of course). But …
One of the best recent articles written in the field of sports economics was “Losing to Win: Tournament Incentives in the National Basketball Association.” by …
The mainstream media, much of it east-coast centered such as Connecticut-based ESPN, droned on and on about how great venue Bethpage is — “muni,” “bringing …
On page 10 of the October 2nd issue of Business Week is a brief article by Peter Coy (not available online) entitled “Freakonomics vs. Moneyball.” …
The last night of the Western Economic Association meetings a group of a dozen sports economists, their spouses, and their children went to dinner together …
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