Brian Goff

The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior

Sportometrics

From the Ballfield to the Boardroom: Management Lessons from Sports

Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance

Sportometrics (Texas A&M University Economics Series)

Once studied by economists primarily to analyze antitrust implications of leagues or labor contracts with players, the sports world has now been identified by pathbreaking economists as a model of universal economic behavior. These economists have coined the term sportometrics to describe their two-...

From the Ballfield to the Boardroom: Management Lessons from Sports

No one can deny that sports and business are two of the most potent forces in our culture today. Sport, play, and the terms and phrases that define them, are engrained in our collective psyche, influencing the ways in which we conduct business-as a game, with rules of engagement, tournaments of comp...

Spoiled Rotten: Affluence, Anxiety, And Social Decay In America

According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years for average Americans. A corollary argument asserts that the combination of flat living standards for the masses and rising standards for a privileged few have created a numb...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior

Intercollegiate sports is an enterprise that annually grosses over $1 billion in income. Some schools receive more than $20 million from athletic programs, perhaps as much as $10 million simply from the sale of football tickets.Probing the history and business practices of the most powerful sports o...