The economics of sports

Learning Objectives -- 11.1 Evidence of Discrimination in Sports -- 11.2 The Economic Theory of Discrimination -- 11.3 Different Forms of Discrimination in Professional Sports -- Employer Discrimination -- Does Anyone Win with Employer Discrimination? -- Employee Discrimination -- Consumer Discrimination -- Positional Discrimination or Hiring Discrimination -- 11.4 Gender Equity -- What Is a Woman? -- Biographical Sketch: Branch Rickey -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- Part Five: Sports in the Not-for-Profit Sector -- 12 The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports -- Introduction -- Learning Objectives -- 12.1 The NCAA -- A Brief History of the NCAA -- The Structure of the NCAA -- 12.2 The Costs and Benefits of Big-Time College Sports -- The Revenue from Intercollegiate Athletics -- The Cost of Intercollegiate Athletics -- Do Colleges Make a Profit from Athletics? -- 12.3 Monopoly Power in College Athletics -- The NCAA and Optimal Cartel Behavior -- Prisoner's Dilemma: How Rational Actions Lead to Irrational Outcomes -- Academic Standards: A Key to Academic Integrity or Exercise of Monopoly Power? -- Antitrust and College Sports -- 12.4 Spillovers from Athletics to the University -- College Sports as Public Goods -- Admissions -- Donations and State Funding -- 12.5 The College Sports Labor Market -- The Value of Athletes to Colleges -- The Value of College to Athletes -- 12.6 Discrimination and College Sports -- Racial Discrimination -- Title IX and Gender Discrimination -- Biographical Sketch: Sonny Vaccaro -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- References -- Index