Anti-Dismal

Warburton was interviewed on Radio New Zealand 's  Morning Report . The Auckland venue for New Zealand's Americas Cup defence was ...

In this audio economist Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College and the author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Be...

Related to my previous posting on the withdraw of public funding for the Parker fight in Auckland comes this news from the New Zealand Heral...

This bit of good news comes from nzherald.co.nz . Just as they appeared set to announce Parker would fight Andy Ruiz Jr for the WBO title...

From Morning Report this morning. A specialist in sports event economics, Dr Sam Richardson of Massey University, says the economic argumen...

That question is asked by Sam Richardson at his Fair Play and Forward Passes blog. His view is much like that of Eric Crampton (see previo...

There is much stupid talked when it comes to taxpayer funding of sporting events. But sometimes some good sense is also talked. One such exa...

Yes you read that right! Even Minto and Dalziel can be right sometimes. Minto and Dalziel have come out against a new sports stadium in Ch...

For some very strange reason Laura McQuillan, at  Stuff ,  discuses  the idea of New Zealand hosting the Olympics. So much stupid here. No...

So writes Ilya Somin at the FEE website. The Olympic Games cause a great amount of harm to many people in the host city, in particular to ...

This article on the economics of the Olympics is from the Project Syndicate web page and is by Andrew Zimbalist who is Professor of Econom...

This title will not come as a great surprise to many people. But its still worth reminding everyone of it. Especially as we have something a...

In the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol. 30, Issue 2 Spring 2016 ) Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson discuss ...

Victor Matheson at the Sports Economist blog writes , According to a statement by Aloisio Mercadante, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’...

A question I'm very pleased to see Sam Richardson asking . As I'm sure most of you will have heard by now the Minister for Economic ...

The fact that large sporting event don't pay has been mentioned on this blog, and other blogs, many times. Now British economist John Ka...

I have commented on work by Sam Richardson on the economic impact of the rugby world cup before:  here , here and here . Richardson is now ...