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Myths and facts about football : the economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport / edited by Patric Andersson, Peter Ayton and Carsten Schmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Football--Economic aspects.
- Football.
- Football--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or "soccer" as it is popularly known in the USA). As football is widely accepted to be the world's most popular sport, the case for scientific investigation of its characteristics is self-evident. As the contributions to this book demonstrate, the game of football offers an ideal opportunity to empirically investigate a wide range of broad issues, for example: behavioural decision-making; judgmental fo...
- Contents:
- pt. I. On-pitch phenomena
- pt. II. Off-pitch phenomena.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41323-6
- 9786612413230
- 1-4438-1525-X
- OCLC:
- 821179730
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