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  • The Palgrave Handbook on the Economics of Manipulation in Sport

    Edited by Markus Breuer, David Forrest ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This updated and expanded new edition explores how sport is manipulated for economic and political gain. Manipulation in sport takes many forms and carefully selected chapters detail the broad variety of ways this can take place. The different types of manipulation in sport are outlined, including doping, match-fixing, and breaking Financial Fair Play, to provide a foundation to the topic. The ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook on the Economics of Manipulation in Sport

    Edited by Markus Breuer, David Forrest ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Sport has enjoyed steadily increasing prominence and economic importance since the Millennium. But threats to its integrity appear to have grown in parallel, undermining the very sense of innocence and fun which is an important part of its appeal. Threats to the spirit of sport come from internal, external and even state actors, who seek either to manipulate events on the field or to exploit the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • What Money Can't Buy

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide

    Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped

    by Stefan Szymanski ...
    Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game.Barely a summer goes by now without a cherished club going into administration or a wealthy businessman funding a mid table team's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

    Edited by Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sports Law

    by Simon Gardiner, Roger Welch, Simon Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo ...
    Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • When Sport Meets Business

    Capabilities, Challenges, Critiques

    Edited by Ulrik Wagner, Klaus Nielsen, Rasmus K. Storm ...
    Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry.Structured into four sections, the book covers the key issues in the Business of professional sport:The New Sport Environment – Analysing the ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Olympic Marketing

    by Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin ...
    The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of the world population) watched at least one minute of the Beijing Games in 2008 on television. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sports Agents and Labour Markets

    Evidence from World Football

    by Giambattista Rossi, Anna Semens, Jean Francois Brocard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
    The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Sport Funding and Finance

    Second edition

    by Bob Stewart ...
    Series series Sport Management Series
    Sport Funding and Finance provides a complete introduction to the macro-level and micro-level aspects of sport finance. It describes the evolution of sport from a kitchen-table operation into the sophisticated, boardroom-driven global financial industry that it is today. It uses the professional sports leagues of the US and Europe as an international benchmark, and explains why the financial ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Sport Management

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Terri Byers ...
    ‘Contemporary Issues in Sport Management presents an extensive array of absorbing contemporary issues relevant to managing sport. Internationally recognised scholars have contributed thought-provoking chapters on current global and local issues that are challenging traditional ways of thinking about and delivering sport. This exciting new book is rich in theory and stimulates readers to really ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD