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Another Comment on John Kenneth Galbraith
Brad DeLong is once again trumpeting the career of John Kenneth Galbraith. Yesterday he posted a link to a Washington Post article (Friends Who Fit Together Smartly: Galbraith and Schlesinger, Like-Minded Neighbors) examining the connection between Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger. The article also provides further details on Galbraith’s life and work, and asks whether any […]
JC Bradbury and Steroids in Baseball
JC Bradbury, currently an economist at the University of the South, but soon to be sports economist at Kennesaw State University, has a wonderful site called Sabernomics. Today he posted a great essay detailing why home runs have increased in baseball. Bradbury dismisses the issue of steroids and instead builds upon the work of Stephen […]
Re-Posting from The Sports Economist
A couple of weeks ago I joined The Sports Economist, a blog led by the one and only Skip Sauer. I have posted a few comments at this site examining the ability of payroll to explain wins in Major League Baseball, the possibility that we would be responsible for future strikes in professional sports, and […]
Predicting the Fall in the Spring
This was originally posted at The Sports Economist on April 19. Like all sports fans, I want to know the future. I don’t want to wait around until October to see who will win the World Series. I want to know right now. Well, what do we know right now? We know how each team did […]
Will We be Blamed for Future Strikes?
This was orignally posted at The Sports Economist on April 29. The NHL lock-out of 2004-05 was the seventh labor dispute in the past 25 years to cost North American fans access to the games they love. And this incident was the biggest, leading to the cancellation of an entire season. People ask each time […]
Losing to Win in the NBA in 2006
This was originally posted at The Sports Economist on May 2nd. One of the best recent articles written in the field of sports economics was “Losing to Win: Tournament Incentives in the National Basketball Association.” by Beck Taylor and Justin Trogdon. This paper, which appeared in The Journal of Labor Economics in 2002, offered evidence that […]
On the Importance of Competitive Balance, Again
My post regarding competitive balance in the NBA generated a few responses at The Sports Economist blog. I posted a response at the Sports Economist which I thought I would make available for vast millions – okay, one or two – people reading this blog. The responses to my post center primarily on the issue […]
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May 9, 2006 by dberri
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