Sports Jobs And Taxes

Author : Roger G. Noll
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815720408
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports, Jobs, and Taxes written by Roger G. Noll and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is in the midst of a sports building boom. Professional sports teams are demanding and receiving fancy new playing facilities that are heavily subsidized by government. In many cases, the rationale given for these subsidies is that attracting or retaining a professional sports franchise—even a minor league baseball team or a major league pre-season training facility--more than pays for itself in increased tax revenues, local economic development, and job creation. But are these claims true? To assess the case for subsidies, this book examines the economic impact of new stadiums and the presence of a sports franchise on the local economy. It first explores such general issues as the appropriate method for measuring economic benefits and costs, the source of the bargaining power of teams in obtaining subsidies from local government, the local politics of attracting and retaining teams, the relationship between sports and local employment, and the importance of stadium design in influencing the economic impact of a facility. The second part of the book contains case studies of major league sports facilities in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities, and of minor league stadiums and spring training facilities in baseball. The primary conclusions are: first, sports teams and facilities are not a source of local economic growth and employment; second, the magnitude of the net subsidy exceeds the financial benefit of a new stadium to a team; and, third, the most plausible reasons that cities are willing to subsidize sports teams are the intense popularity of sports among a substantial proportion of voters and businesses and the leverage that teams enjoy from the monopoly position of professional sports leagues.

Author : D. Stanley Eitzen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781572599543
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport in Contemporary Society written by D. Stanley Eitzen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-07-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic anthology analyzes the sociological implications of sports in modern society through a series of interesting and informative essays. Sport in Contemporary Society can be used in a variety of ways, as a primary text for courses in the sociology of sport, as a supplementary text for a sociology course, or even for general readers who wish to deepen their understanding and appreciation of sport. 35 articles, 21 new to this edition, are included.

Author : William S. Kern
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN 13 : 0880992107
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Sports written by William S. Kern and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by economists, the six essays collected here provide a picture of economic principles at work in the arena of big-time sports. The 1998-1999 NBA lockout, the economic effects of sports stadiums, and the level of parity in leagues and conferences are used to present analyses of contemporary economic issues including industrial organization, influences of labor markets, the effect of racial discrimination, market power, the behavior of cartels, and price discrimination. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Neil deMause
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285485
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field of Schemes written by Neil deMause and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin J. Delaney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533438
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Dollars, Private Stadiums written by Kevin J. Delaney and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Greg LeRoy
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609943511
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Jobs Scam written by Greg LeRoy and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed $100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached. So companies feel free to provide fewer jobs, or none at all, or even outsource and lay people off. They are also free to pay poverty wages without health care or other benefits. All too often, communities lose twice. They lose jobs--or gain jobs so low-paying they do nothing to help the community--and lose revenue due to the huge corporate tax breaks. That means fewer resources for maintaining schools, public services, and infrastructure. In the end, the local governments that were hoping for economic revitalization are actually worse off. They're forced to raise taxes on struggling small businesses and working families, or reduce services, or both. Greg LeRoy uses up-to-the-minute examples, naming names--including Wal-Mart, Raytheon, Fidelity, Bank of America, Dell, and Boeing--to reveal how the process works. He shows how carefully corporations orchestrate the bidding wars between states and communities. He exposes shadowy "site location consultants" who play both sides against the middle, and he dissects government and corporate mumbo-jumbo with plain talk. The book concludes by offering common-sense reforms that will give taxpayers powerful new tools to deter future abuses and redirect taxpayer investments in ways that will really pay off.

Author : Michael A. Leeds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131551060X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Sports written by Michael A. Leeds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate courses in sports economics, this book introduces core economic concepts developed through examples from the sports industry. The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. The Economics of Sports explores economic concepts and theory of industrial organization, public finance, and labor economics in the context of applications and examples from American and international sports.

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134498160
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Global Sports Organisations written by John Forster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackle such topics as the global sports economy, the global sports market and fringe sports with an accessible style. This book will be useful to those studing the economics of sport as well as those in the sports industry.

Author : Trevor Slack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135764352
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commercialisation of Sport written by Trevor Slack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has become increasingly commercialised and there are many examples of close links that have developed between sport and business. This collection examines five of them in a global context.

Author : Michael A. Leeds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315510596
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Sports written by Michael A. Leeds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate courses in sports economics, this book introduces core economic concepts developed through examples from the sports industry. The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. The Economics of Sports explores economic concepts and theory of industrial organization, public finance, and labor economics in the context of applications and examples from American and international sports.