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The Economics and Finance of Professional Team Sports
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The Economics and Finance of Professional Team Sports

by Daniel Plumley, Rob Wilson
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
186 pages
6h 9m
English
Routledge
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1 THE MARKET STRUCTURE FOR PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORT

DOI: 10.4324/9781003130130-2

In Part 1 of the book, we outline the broader concepts of sport economics that link to the world of professional team sport. It’s important to note that these concepts will be used in the context of professional team sports rather than general leisure economics – such broader discussion can be found elsewhere. There are numerous other textbooks devoted to the area of leisure and recreation economics, including the seminal text The Economics of Sport and Recreation by Gratton and Taylor (2000). Our focus therefore is explicitly on the economics of professional team sports across the world. On that basis, we will discuss the unique position that professional team ...

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