Transatlantic Sport: The Comparative Economics of North American and European Sports
本书汇集九篇论文，比较北美与欧洲体育模式的异同，探讨其对经济、政策和社会问题的影响，适合对体育经济学和比较研究感兴趣的学者。
This book collects nine contributions on the economics of sport which attempt to highlight both the similarities and differences in North American and European models of sport as well as their implications for a number of economic, policy and social issues. The papers come from a conference held in Lisbon in November 2000 that brought together a group of North American and European researchers (mostly economists) who share an interest in the comparative economics of sports. As the editors indicate in their opening sentences, for most people economics and sports may appear to be uneasy companions, at least at first glance. Yet, it should take a good social scientist not too long to realise that sports settings offer many unique opportunities for theoretical and empirical study of a number of important matters in economics and other social sciences. Matters that would be difficult, if not impossible, to study in other settings. Also, sports occupy an important place in the lives of most people and represent a very large share of the time that is devoted to leisure in modern societies.