Syllabus
1. What is economics all about?
2. How to use graphs in economics
3. Supply and demand
4. Measuring national output
5. Inflation and unemployment
6. Introduction to macroeconomics, output, growth and capital
7. Aggregate demand and supply: the key to macroeconomics
8. Fiscal and monetary policy
9. Consumer and cost
10. Competition and monopoly
11. Sport in the economy
12. Cost benefit analysis of sport
13. Sporting governance and the state
14. The economics of professional sports and leagues
Annotation
The course provides and understanding of sport in a political-economic context set against the backdrop of increasing globalization. The course offers a discussion of sport while locating sport within trends and characteristics of advanced capitalism.
Considered together, they provide evidence of similar forces effecting, and being effected by the internationalization of sport and sport-related enterprises.