Michael J. Haupert, University of Wisconsin — La Crosse “The reason baseball calls itself a game is because it’s too screwed up to be a business” — Jim Bouton, author and former MLB player Origins The origin of modern baseball is usually considered the formal organization of the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club in […]
Published by EH.Net (October 2018) David George Surdam and Michael G. Haupert, The Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. xi + 405 pp. $45 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8032-9682-4. Reviewed for EH.Net by John Charles Bradbury, Department of Economics, Kennesaw State University. David […]
Carole E. Scott, State University of West Georgia The Technological Development of Radio: From Thales to Marconi All electrically-based industries trace their ancestry back to at least 600 B.C. when the Greek philosopher Thales observed that after it is rubbed, amber (electron in Greek) attracts small objects. In 1600, William Gilbert, an Englishman, distinguished between […]
Published by EH.Net (June 2013) Stuart Banner, The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball?s Antitrust Exemption. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 276 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-199-93029-6. Reviewed for EH.Net by John Charles Bradbury, Kennesaw State University.? It would be hard to select a subtitle more apt for this book than ?a […]
Published by EH.NET (May 2006) Margaret Garb, City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv + 261 pp. $40 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-28209-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Fred H. Smith, Department of Economics, Davidson College. Home ownership rates in the United States […]
Published by EH.NET (January 2006) Harm G. Schr?ter, Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. xii + 268 pp. $99 (hardcover), ISBN: 1-4020-2884-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Graham Brownlow, Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology. The development of what could be […]
Published by EH.NET (May 2004) Henry D. Fetter, Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. xi + 461 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-393-05719-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Michael J. Haupert, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. “If ever a paradox were […]
Published by EH.NET (January 2002) Robert F. Burk, Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xi + 372 pp. $45 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2592-1; $19.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8078-4908-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by Michael Haupert, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse. […]
William M. Boal, Drake University and Michael R. Ransom, Brigham Young University What is Labor Monopsony? The term “monopsony,” first used in print by Joan Robinson (1969, p. 215), means a single buyer in a market. Like a monopolist (a single seller), a monopsonist has power over price through control of quantity. In particular, a […]
Published by EH.Net (April 2013) David George Surdam, The Rise of the National Basketball Association. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012. vii + 247 pp. $25 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-252-07866-8 Reviewed for EH.Net by Todd A. McFall, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University. The bulk of my growing up occurred in the 1980s in Indiana, […]
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