They Play, You Pay Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players

Name: They Play, You Pay Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players
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ISBN: 9781461433316

ISBN-10: 1461433312

ISBN-13: 9781461433316

Edition: 2012

Authors: James T. Bennett

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They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, governments keep on taxing sales, restaurant patrons, renters of automobiles, and hotel visitors in order to build ever more elaborate cathedrals of professional sport-often in order to satisfy an owner who has threatened to move his team to greener, more subsidyhappy, pastures. This book is a sweeping survey of the literature in the field, the history of such subsidies, the politics of stadium construction and franchise movement, and the prospects for a reprivaï¿½tiï¿½zation of ballpark and stadium…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 5/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 225
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.19" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

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