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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University
If We Build It, Will They Come? and Other Sports Questions

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Question 40.1

Click on this article

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv23n2/coates.pdf

Comment on these authors’ contention that sports stadiums should be judged as you would judge a public investment in any other asset (like a school, road or bridge). Should the externality argument be ignored?

Question 40.2

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http://www.brook.edu/views/op%2Ded/noll/19960411.htm

Comment on the author’s contention that it would be better for the city of New York to pay the Yankees $10 million a year rather than build them a stadium. What would this policy mean in other cities.





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