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Soccernomics : why European men and American women win and billionaire owners are destined to lose /
"Soccernomics is written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, and it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data and revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most loved game. It all adds up to a revolutionary new w...
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New York :
Bold Type Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | 2022 World Cup edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Soccernomics : |b why European men and American women win and billionaire owners are destined to lose / |c Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. |
| 250 | |a 2022 World Cup edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Bold Type Books, |c 2022. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2022 | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 450 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Driving with a dashboard: in search of new truths about soccer -- Part I: the clubs--Racism, stupidity, bad transfers, capital cities, the Leicester fairy tale, and what actually happened in that penalty shoot-out in Moscow -- Gentlemen prefer blonds: how to avoid silly mistakes in the transfer market -- The worst business in the world: why soccer clubs haven't made money -- Safer than the bank of England: why soccer clubs almost never disappear -- A decent business at last? be careful what you wish for -- Super league: why rich people don't always get what they want -- Unbanned: the case for reparations for women's soccer -- Need not apply: does soccer discriminate against black people? -- Do coaches matter? the cult of the white manager -- Isaac Newton, Liverpool, and the moneyball of soccer: have data analytics transformed the game? -- The economist's fear of the penalty kick: are penalties cosmically unfair, or only if you are Nicolas Anelka? -- The suburban newsagents: city sizes and soccer prizes -- Part II: the fans--Loyalty, suicides, and happiness -- A fan's suicide notes: do people jump off buildings when their teams lose? -- Happiness: why hosting a World Cup Is good for you -- Football versus football: a tale of two empires -- Are soccer fans polygamists? a critique of the Nick Hornby model of fandom -- Part III: countries--Rich and poor, Tom Thumb, England, Spain, Palestine, and the champions of the future -- The curse of poverty: why poor countries are poor at sports -- Core beats periphery: why little Western Europe rules international soccer -- Why England still loses--but nowadays only just -- Tom Thumb: the best little soccer country on earth -- The future: the best of times--and the streaming service. | |
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