Sports Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy (Sport Management)

Sports Economics is the ideal introduction for all sport management and sport policy students and those for whom economics is a relatively new area of study. The book will also provide an ideal introduction to sports economics for economics students new to the area. Specifically designed to make economics accessible the context of sport is the focus of analysis, ensuring that this book is lively, accessible and approachable.

The full scope of the sports economy is examined, covering the three main arenas in which sport takes place – mass participation, professional sports and sports events. The key elements of the economic representation of these three markets are considered, such as the underlying demand for and supply of these sports, together with the main policy issues affecting them

Whilst truly international in scope, it focuses particularly on specific comparisons between the US, the UK and mainland Europe. The breadth of discussion and international emphasis is brought to life by a detailed discussion of the evidence throughout the book to illustrate the key themes discussed – ideal for both lecturer and student. Reflection questions and Boxes are also used in chapters to prompt the reader to think about specific points as well as to provide the context for specific theoretical or empirical contributions that have been used to analyse sport.

* Embraces the full scope of the sports economy, including mass participation, professional sports and sports events
* Ideal resource for sports management and policy students, making economics accessible through strong pedagogy
* Illustrated by international case studies focusing on the UK, US and mainland Europe

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Resumes (National Business Employment Weekly Career Guides)

Don’t just list your credentials–create resumes that get results! When it comes to your resume, one size doesn’t fit all. You need a document that’s uniquely your own, one that “hooks” prospective employers and proves you have the combination of skills, abilities, and experience they’re looking for. Written by an award-winning columnist at the National Business Employment Weekly, today’s leading career resource, this practical guide arms you with the latest techniques for researching and writing tailor-made, highly focused resumes that work like sophisticated sales tools, giving you a powerful competitive edge in today’s aggressive job market. This updated edition includes new resumes from real-life candidates who sought and found jobs, with many “before and after” examples.
* Covers all types of resumes, including chronological, functional, and combination
* Outlines how to identify your most relevant skills and accomplishments
* Avoids the cookie-cutter approach to resumes, providing plentiful examples, ideas, and checklists to help you create a unique document
* Covers specialized resume categories, including first-time job seekers, homemakers returning to the work force, career changers, and even seasoned professionals
* Includes the real-life stories behind the model resumes–learn how people in similar circumstances changed their lives and moved on to better positions
* Shows how to prepare a scannable version of your document
* Teaches you how to effectively sell your unique talents and qualifications–even to the most demanding recruiter
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Cost of Capital in Litigation: Applications and Examples (Wiley Finance)

Praise for Cost of Capital in Litigation

Applications and Examples

“After revising their existing text, Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples, the authors have endeavored to expand their treatment of the subject and further explore the role of cost of capital in the courts.?Addressing various methods for calculating value and different standards of value, the authors explain how courts may differ in their decisions based on the topic, jurisdiction, or available evidence. This new compilation is an important contribution to the field of valuation and will serve as an imminently helpful resource for attorneys and judges. Shannon Pratt and Roger Grabowski have provided yet another thoughtful,?helpful,?and excellent resource for all practitioners interested in how appraisers and courts have, and should, arrive at value.”?
—From the Foreword by?David Laro, Judge, United States Tax Court

“Cost of Capital in Litigation is a very helpful resource for litigators faced with valuation disputes involving an assessment of discounted cash flows. In the area with which I am most familiar—Delaware valuation law—it is thorough and insightful. More important to me, its introductory material nicely lays out the conceptual structure of the valuation issue, and the remaining chapters gather lots of information about the treatment of the issue in areas with which I am less familiar, (such as bankruptcy law and domestic property litigation).”?
—Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware

“Cost of Capital in Litigation comprehensively deals with a difficult subject, pointing out common grounds as well as differences among experts in the treatment of this subject.? It is a must first stop for the uninitiated in the subject and the ultimate checklist that every practitioner should consult.?Particularly useful are the chapters focusing with the eyes of experts on the treatment of cost of capital in specific areas of litigation.?Notably, the authors alert the reader to those aspects of the various methods for determining cost of capital that may differentiate among the suitability of the methods based on available data, the circumstances presented, and the legal issue under consideration.”
—Reeves Westbrook, Esq., Partner and Chair of the Tax Group, Covington & Burling LLP

“Shannon Pratt and Roger Grabowski have consolidated information on important theoretical valuation frameworks, practical applications, and case law needed by finance professionals, attorneys, and judges in these challenging times. Cost of Capital in Litigation serves as a solid well-written reference on cost of capital and valuation that I recommend to both practitioners and students.”
—Theodore Barnhill, Professor of Finance and Director of the Global

and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute, The George Washington University

“Valuation in litigation settings requires careful analysis, solid evidence, and defensible positions.?Cost of Capital in Litigation details the nuances and subtle but critical elements of crafting a defens-ible position for experts, attorneys, and others who need to understand how and why valuation cases are won and lost.”
—Hal Heaton, Professor of Finance, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University

“Discount rates are often crucial components in calculating damages.?Even small changes in these numbers can?have large effects on the amounts in dispute—and the?magnitude of damages won or lost.?Cost of Capital in Litigation explains the underlying economic theory. It then offers separate chapters elaborating on rate of return approaches in their widely varied forensic contexts.? This?helpful compendium even includes an outline of cost of capital questions for use by attorneys and their financial experts.? No business litigator should be without it.”
—Peter V. Baugher, Esq., Partner, Schopf & Weiss LLP?

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Structure of Economics

This text combines mathematical economics with microeconomic theory and can be required or recommended as part of a course in graduate microeconomic theory, advanced undergraduate or graduate-level mathematical economics, or any advanced topics course. It also has reference value for international, library, professional and reference markets. This revision addresses significant new topics – the theory of contracts and markets with imperfect information – that have recently become prominent in the microeconomics literature.

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Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology

This book could be called “The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Economics.” Like Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Thorstein Veblen. The title expresses Duncan Foley’s belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam’s fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.

Smith and his successors argued that the market and the division of labor that is fostered by it result in tremendous gains in productivity, which lead to a higher standard of living. Yet the market does not address the problem of distribution—that is, how is the gain in wealth to be divided among the classes and members of society? Nor does it address such problems as the long-run well-being of the planet.

Adam’s Fallacy is beautifully written and contains interesting observations and insights on almost every page. It will engage the reader’s thoughts and feelings on the deepest level.

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Sell Your Business for the Max!

In his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Bag the Elephant! and Be the Elephant, Steve Kaplan showed business owners how to win the big customer and maintain growth. In Sell Your Business for the Max!, Kaplan covers another and even more necessary skill: selling the business for maximum payoff. The need for this book is enormous—according to a recent study by Mass Mutual Financial Group, 40 percent of CEOs of family businesses will consider retiring in the next few years. In a survey conducted by the author, 95 percent of owners said they think about selling their business at least once a week, and 94 percent said they have no one to turn to for advice. Now they have Steve Kaplan, who has owned 35 businesses and sold 30 of them.

Selling a business requires a completely different skill set than running a business. In addition, it’s often entangled in highly emotional issues. Are you really ready to retire? Should you pass the business on to your children or sell outside the family? And how do you quantify the blood, sweat, and years of hard work you devoted to make your company thrive? In this step-by-step workbook, packed with indispensable advice and real-life examples, Kaplan breaks down the process into three easily navigable stages: preparing for the sale (including how to value your business); negotiating the sale; and, like follow-through in a golf swing, optimizing the outcome. In addition, he explains the Five Killer Mistakes to Avoid (here’s one: Don’t share the news too early!).

Included with the planner, and greatly enhancing it, is a suite of downloadable business-building tools, online templates, charts, and interactive calculators—making this not just the book for every small and large business owner, but a complete practical kit.

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Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking (McGraw-Hill Finance & Investing)

In order to make sound investment choices, investors must know the projected return on investment in relation to the risk of not being paid. Benchmarks are excellent evaluators, but the failure to choose the right investing performance benchmark often leads to bad decisions or inaction, which inevitably results in lost profits.

The first book of its kind, Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking is a complete guide to benchmarks and performace evaluation using benchmarks. In one inclusive volume, readers get foundational coverage on benchmark construction, as well as expert insight into specific benchmarks for asset classes and investment styles.

Starting with the basics—such as return calculations and methods of dealing with cash flows—this thorough book covers a wide variety of performance measurement methodologies and evaluation techniques before moving into more technical material that deconstructs both the creation of indexes and the components of a desirable benchmark.

Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking provides detailed coverage of benchmarks for:

  • U.S. equities
  • Global and international equities
  • Fixed income
  • Real estate

The team of renowned authors offers illuminating opinions on the philosophy and development of equity indexes, while highlighting numerous mechanical problems inherent in building benchmarks and the implications of each one.

Before you make your next investment, be certain your return will be worth the risk with Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking.

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The Everything Alternative Careers Book: Leave the Office Behind and Embark on a New Adventure (Everything: School and Careers)

As the economy continues to falter and the job market tightens, people are starting to think “outside the box” regarding their career choices. Of course, some were never “in the box” in the first place. The Everything® Alternative Careers Book is the one career guide that speaks to the adventurer in everyone.

From careers readers have heard of, such as being an artist or actress, to the wild and wacky, such as a circus trapeze artist or body double, The Everything® Alternative Careers Book gives readers all of the information they need to leave the office behind. This unique career book also helps readers understand—and plan for—the realities of some alternative careers, such as inoculations prior to international travel, health insurance, and financial planning.

The Everything® Alternative Careers Book features information on a wide range of creative careers, including:

·Actor
·Dog walker
·Ski instructor
·Model
·eBay
·Greenpeace

Whether readers are looking for a year away from the office or a lifetime, The Everything® Alternative Careers Book will help them find—and secure—the job they want!

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The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook: Essential Preparation for Quantitative Reasoning, Data Interpretation and Verbal Reasoning Tests (Careers & Testing)

Employers want to fill their top management posts with candidates of the highest caliber. Any mistake in their recruitment process can mean wasteful costs in both time and money. Consequently, recruitment to any management post follows a rigorous selection which can include a range of psychometric tests.

 

The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook provides essential preparation for graduates or managers who face psychometric tests. With correct training and practice candidates can improve their scores, and this workbook provides that opportunity.

 

This second edition contains even more practice material and realistic timed mock tests. The larger format allows space for writing answers and notes, and there are detailed explanations of answers with interpretations of scores.

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The Everything Guide To Careers In Health Care: Find the Job That’s Right for You (Everything (School & Careers))

The trillion-dollar health-care industry makes up the fastest growing segment of the job marketÑand will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. With The Everything Guide to Careers in Health Care, you can explore all the employment possibilities in health careÑand choose the right career path just for you. From nursing and psychology to pharmacy technology and art therapyÑand dozens more positions in betweenÑthis engaging, enlightening volume helps you decide which career to pursue and how to pursue it, including:
  • Self-assessment and -evaluation
  • Working conditions and lifestyle concerns
  • Educational requirements
  • Available grants and incentives
  • And much, much more!

The Everything Guide to Careers in Health Care is all you need to take advantage of the many opportunities the booming health care industry has to offerÑfor years to come!

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