Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums

Book Overview

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815761112
• ISBN13: 9780815761112
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good for research

I used this as the backbone of my senior paper in college. However, I found that the authors did quite a bit of stretching to say that "no impact could be found". My own research has concluded that stadia can not be evaluated in purely economic terms as they chose to do. That said, this book is good for grounding readers in a number of case studies, and should provide a road map to stadium advocates as to the flaws in previous proposals.