{"product_id":"they-play-you-pay-why-taxpayers-build-ballparks-stadiums-and-arenas-for-billionaire-owners-and-millionaire-players-9781461433316","title":"They Play, You Pay: Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Play, You Pay\u003c\/i\u003e 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 subsidy-happy, 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 re-priva-ti-zation of ballpark and stadium financing. It ties together disparate strands in a fascinating story, examining the often colorful cases through which governments became involved in sports. These range from the well-known to the obscure--from Yankee Stadium and the Astrodome to the Brooklyn Dodgers' move to Los Angeles (to a privately built ballpark constructed upon land that had been seized via eminent domain from a mostly Mexican-American population) to such arrant giveaways as Cowboys Stadium. It examines alternatives that might lessen the pressure for public subsidies, whether the Green Bay Packers model (in which the team's owners are local stockholders) or via league expan-sions. It also takes a look at little-known, yet significant, episodes such as President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in the collegiate football crisis of 1905--a move that indirectly put the federal government on the side of such basic rule changes as the legalization of the forward pass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThey Play, You Play\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh look at a political and economic puzzle: how it came to be that Joe and Jane Sixpack in the Bronx and Dallas subsidize the Steinbrenners and Jerry Joneses of professional sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James T. Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781461433316\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames T. Bennett is Eminent Scholar and William P. Snavely Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at George Mason University, and Director of The John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, where he specializes in Public Choice Theory, Political Economy, Labor Economics, and Public Policy. Previously, he served on the faculty of George Washington University. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and has served as editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Labor Research, \u003c\/i\u003e on the board of the \u003ci\u003eReview of Austrian Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a referee for such journals as \u003ci\u003eEconomic Inquiry; Review of Economics and Statistics; Public Choice; Public Finance Quarterly; Journal of Economics and Business; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Economic Review. \u003c\/i\u003e He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eFrom Pathology to Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (Transaction), \u003ci\u003eUnhealthy Charities\u003c\/i\u003e (Basic Books), \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of American Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e (University Press of America), \u003ci\u003eStifling Political Competition\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer, SIPC Series), \u003ci\u003eNot Invited to the Party\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSpringer\u003c\/i\u003e), and \u003ci\u003eThe Doomsday Lobby\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer\/Copernicus). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45063369064563,"sku":"9.78146E+12","price":50.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8e8e2c2b-7cd4-493c-9806-b1f1c74c7520.jpg?v=1780429192","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/they-play-you-pay-why-taxpayers-build-ballparks-stadiums-and-arenas-for-billionaire-owners-and-millionaire-players-9781461433316","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}