The Bottom Line. Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business.

Zimbalist, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1592135137 / ISBN 13: 9781592135134

Edité par Temple University Press,U.S., 2006

A collection of more than 100 essays written between 1998 and 2006 on the sports industry. They delve into some of the important sports business issues, including the financing of new stadiums, the financial value of professional teams, revenue sharing programs, the flaws in "competitive balance" plans, walkouts and lockouts, and more. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBS; JPA; KNSP; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 417. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9781592135134

Synopsis :

This is a collection of more than 100 essays written between 1998 and 2006 on the sports industry by one of the nation's leading sports economists. Provocative, fact-filled, and tightly argued, these essays are essential reading for every sport's fan.

Revue de presse: "The advantage of this book is that it allows the reader to see how one of the foremost professors in sports and business analyzed each event virtually as it happened. So this book will take you back over the past decade and consistently teach you something new about professional and college sports." Wordpress website "Very few academics treat sport as seriously as it deserves. And precious few of them keep their subject interesting. Andrew Zimbalist is royalty in this small kingdom." --Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

"The bottom line on The Bottom Line? Definitely worth the money and time, even though it reprints work previously published. The author of several excellent books on baseball economics, Zimbalist is an indefatigable, seemingly ubiquitous commentator on the business of sports in the print and broadcast media...Readers will be informed by most of these opinion pieces and infuriated by others. But Zimbalist should not be ignored. Highly recommended." - CHOICE "The Bottom Line brings together some of the best articles that [Zimbalist] has written during the past 15 years. Like readers who find that their favorite novelist is also an expert short-story writer, those familiar with Zimbalist's books but not his op-ed pieces will see the same trenchant analysis and quick with in these essays...It is a collection worth reading and rereading." --The Journal of Sports Economics

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Bottom Line. Observations and Arguments ...
Éditeur : Temple University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New