An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of economic aspects to criminal behaviour in sport. It addresses manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions and crimes triggered by economic interests or pure greed in sports, and challenges the governance of this important industry. Topics covered include hazing, sabotage, refereeing bias, technological manipulations, tanking, bad management, financial doping, ticket touting, circumventing the law through sport, discrimination and child labour.

The book is divided into three volumes. Volume I covers those economic manipulations that breach sports rules, sporting integrity, violate managerial rules and the law, and infringe human rights in sport. It builds up a typology of sport manipulations which makes sense from an economic standpoint, not only from a sporting or judicial perspective.

Volumes II and III (available separately) focus on Corruption and Economic Crime in Sport, respectively.

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

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 Association of Sport Management.