An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

This Palgrave Pivot forms the final part of Andreff's trilogy reviewing the economic aspects of criminal behaviour in sports. In this volume, Andreff focuses on the most economically significant manipulations jeopardising the future of current, modern, sport: rigged online sport betting and doping. The former is framed as a new business undertaken by global criminal networks linked to economic globalisation, whilst the latter discusses empirical evidence, definitions, regulations and various regional and sporting case studies. Andreff summarises by using game theory to propose a new incentive scheme that could act as a solution for addressing such criminal activity in future.

Volumes I and II (available separately) address Sport Manipulations and Corruption in Sport respectively.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers and journalists in sports science, sports management and sports economics.

Presents match fixing and money laundering as a new business resulting from the globalisation of sports Reviews policy options for online betting-related match fixing Provides case study examples for doping in different countries and sports Suggests a new incentive scheme to transform doping in the world of sports

Autorentext

Wladimir Andreff is Emeritus Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. He is also President of the Scientific Council at the Observatory of the Sports Economy, French Ministry for Sports, as well as Honorary President and former President (2002-05) of the International Association of Sport Economists, Honorary President of the European Sports Economics Association, former President of the French Economic Association (2007-08) and Honorary Member and former President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (1997-98). His research and teaching interests include sports economics, economics of (post-communist) transition and international economics, and he is author of 12 books, over 450 scientific articles, of which over 150 are in sports economics, and editor of 17 books published or translated in 18 languages. He is the 2019 winner of the Chelladurai Award from the European Associationof Sport Management.

Inhalt

1. Global criminal networking in sport: online betting-related match-fixing.- 2. Challenging standard economics and policies.- 3. Doping: which economic crime in sport?.- 4. Moving beyond inefficient policies to combat doping.- 5. Conclusion