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Op-Ed
"Consider the Options"
Chicago Tribune
April 22, 2008

"National Frozen League"
SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL
Feb. 25-March 2, 2008

"Barry, Barry bad?  Not so fast"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
November 20, 2007

"What We Learn: When We Learn About Economics"
IN THESE TIMES by Christopher Hayes
November 8, 2006

"O Brasil deve fugir da Copa"
EXAME
October 11, 2006

"5-Ring Circus: Let the (political) Games Begin"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
August 3, 2005

"What goes around should now come around"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
December 31, 2004

"The unnatural"

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

June 4, 2002

"There should be tying in baseball"
SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL
August 5-11, 2002

"The rites - and wrongs - of spring"
SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL
April 2-8, 2001

"Soldier Field debate heats up"
Chicago Sun-Times
August 8, 2001

Our bodies? Ourselves?
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
September 9, 2001

Mistakes in rushing to judgment
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
October 7, 2001

(Your) Time is (not our) money (or concern)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
November 26, 2001

"A million here, a million there"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
March 2, 2000

"It just ain't so, Joe"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
June 22, 2000

"Streets and Sanitation"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
October 30, 2000

"Borrower sometimes a good thing to be"
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
October 31, 2000

Windfalls and snow jobs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
January 12, 1999

"Food for Thought Make:  America's Meals Safer...or...Maybe We'll Eat Elsewhere"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
January 31, 1999

"A Taste of Chicago"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
March 16, 1999

"A multiple-choice question on our worst civic feature"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
November 16, 1999

"Good intentions, bad consequences"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
December 19, 1999

"Will Chicago Suffer from the Loss of Professional Basketball?"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
October 29, 1998

"Be like Mike?  Be like...fired?
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
June 25, 1997

"Stats give lie to sports truisms"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
August 10, 1997

"Putting out Chicago's Parking Fires" with Tamika Rogers
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
November 14, 1997

"Government and football"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
February 5, 1996

"Field of Fantasies"
Intellectual Ammunition
March/April 1996

"The economics of Michael Jordan: Is he priceless?"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
June 4, 1996

"Zero air accidents?  No way"
THE PLAIN DEALER
March 17, 1995

"Games Oilers Play"
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
August 20, 1995

"Save the Parks, and Make a Profit"
The New York Times
September 30, 1995

"Ticket Fix"
The New York Times
September 26, 1994

"The final score: Quality does not strike out in baseball"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
October 2, 1994

"Break Up Baseball"
The Washington Post
December 9, 1994

The Library of Economics and Liberty
Incentives, Incentives, Incentives
The Library of Economics and Liberty
March 3, 2008

de Minimis
The Library of Economics and Liberty
September 3, 2007

Bend it Like (Yogi) Berra
The Library of Economics and Liberty
August 7, 2006

The Price is Right
The Library of Economics and Liberty
October 3, 2005

Power to Which People?
The Library of Economics and Liberty
December 6, 2004

The Puzzling Economics of Sports
The Library of Economics and Liberty
May 3, 2004


University of Chicago Magazine

Wealth of Notions
December, 2001

Bottom-Line Drive
June, 1995


Book Reviews

Crunch: why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries)
by Jared Bernstein

The mind of the market: compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics
by Michael Shermer

Solutions for the world's biggest problems: costs and benefits
ed. by Bjørn Lomborg

More sex is safter sex: the unconventional wisdom of economics
by Steven E. Landsburg

Equal Play: Title IX and social change
ed. by Nancy Hogshead-Marak and Andrew Zimbalist

Speaking of Economics: how to get in the conversation
by Arjo Klamer

A Farewell to Alms: a brief economic history of the world
by Gregory Clark

Econospinning: how to read between the lines when the  media manipulate the numbers
by Gene Epstein

The Baseball Economist: the real game exposed
by J. C. Bradbury

The Economics of Association Football
edited by Bill Gerrard and E. Elgar

Handbook on the Economics of Sport
edited by Wladimir Andreff and Stefan Szymanski

The soulful science: what economists really do and why it matters
by Diane Coyle

On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O'Rourke

Inside the Economist's Mind: conversations with eminent economists
edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett

Big sports, big business: a century of league expansions, mergers, and reorganizations.
by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.

The bottom line: observations and arguments on the sports business.
by Andrew Zimbalist

The Sports Industry's War on Athletes
by Peter Finley and Laura Finley

The wages of wins: taking measure of the many myths in modern sport
by David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt, and Stacey L. Brook

Artificial ice: hockey, culture, and commerce
ed. by David Whitson and Richard Gruneau. 

On Classical Economics
Sowell, Thomas

Baseball between the numbers: why everything you know about the game is wrong, by the experts at Baseball Prospectus: James Click et al
Keri, Jonah ed.

The undercover economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car!
Harford, Tim

Class matters
by correspondents of The New York Times

Bait and switch: the (futile) pursuit of the American dream
Ehrenreich, Barbara

Aiding students, buying students: financial aid in America
Wilkinson, Rupert

Operation Yao Ming: the Chinese sports empire, American big business, and the making of an NBA superstar
Larmer, Brook

Restoring fiscal sanity, 2005: meeting the long-run challenge
ed. by Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill

National pastime: how Americans play baseball and the rest of the world plays soccer
Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist

Equity and excellence in American higher education
William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin with Susanne C. Pichler

Retro ball parks: instant history, baseball, and the new American city
Rosensweig, Daniel

Global crises, global solutions
ed. by Bjørn Lomborg

The meaning of Ichiro: the new wave from Japan and the transformation of our national pastime
Whiting, Robert


Professional Manuscripts and Publications

"The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities"
Allen Sanderson, John Siegfried, and Peter McHenry; Change, March/April 2008

"Simon Rottenberg and Baseball, Then and Now:  A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective." 
Allen Sanderson and John Siegfried; JPE, 2006, 114(3), pp. 594-605.

"The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities."
Allen Sanderson,  John Siegfried and Peter McHenry; Economics of Education Review 

A Home for the NFL Chicago Bears:  A Case Study in Political
 Economy and Power
July, 2004

"Economics: The Sexy and Social Science? Keeping Economics from Becoming a Sexy Social Science."
John J. Siegfried and Allen R. Sanderson; Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 10(1), pp. 209-14

"Thinking About Competitive Balance"
Allen R. Sanderson and John J. Siegfried; Journal of Sports Economics, 2003, 4(4), pp. 255-79

"The Many Dimensions of Competitive Balance."
Journal of Sports Economics, 2002, 3(2), pp. 204-28

"Interstate Migration Patterns of Recent Science and Engineering Doctorate Recipients."
Allen Sanderson and Bernard Dugoni; InfoBrief: National Science Foundation; February 2002.

"Labour Markets in Professional Sports."
Sherwin Rosen and Allen Sanderson; Economic Journal, 2001, 111(469), pp. F47-68

"Sherwin Rosen, 1938-2001."
Journal of Sports Economics, 2001, 2(3), pp. 211-12

The American Faculty Poll
Allen Sanderson, Voon Chin Phua and David Herda; Chicago, Ill: National Opinion Research Center, 2000

"In Defense of New Sports Stadiums, Ballparks and Arenas"
Marquette Sports Law Journal, 2000, 10(2), pp. 173-192

"Using Sports to Teach Economics,"
John J. Siegfried and Allen R. Sanderson, in W. E. Becker and M. Watts: Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar, 1998, pp 161-83

An Analysis of Worker Drug Use and Workplace Policies and Programs
John P. Hoffmann, Cindy Larison and Allen Sanders; DHHS Publications; No. (SMA) 97-3142; Analytic Series; A-2; SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies, 1997

 

"The Employment Effect of Teams and Sports Facilities"
Robert A. Baade and Allen R. Sanderson, in R. G. Noll and A. Zimbalist: Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums. Washington D.C.: Brooking Institution Press, 1997, pp. 92-118

“Bearing Down in Chicago: Location, Location, Location,”
Robert A. Baade and Allen R. Sanderson, in R. G. Noll and A. Zimbalist: Sports, Jobs and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums. Washington
, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997, pp. 324-54

 

"Cities Under Siege: How the Changing Financial Structure of Professional Sports is Putting Cities at Risk and What to do about it"

Robert A. Baade and Allen Sanderson in Advances in the Economics of Sport, Volume 2. JAI Press, 1997, pp. 77-114.

 

“Minor League Teams and Communities,”
Robert A. Baade and Allen R. Sanderson, in R. G. Noll and A. Zimbalist: Sports, Jobs and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums. Washington
, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997, pp. 452-93

 

"The Implication of athlete freedom to contract: lessons from North America"

Allen R. Sanderson and John J. Siegfried in Economic Affairs: The Economics of Sports; Journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 17(3), pp. 7-12.

 

National Education Longitudinal Study 1988-1994: Descriptive Summary Report: With an Essay on Access and Choice in Postsecondary Education
Allen Sanderson, Bernard Dugoni, Kenneth Rasinski and  John Taylor; Statistical Analysis Report; Variation: Statistical Analysis Report (National Center for Education Statistics) Report No: Nces 96-175; Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1996

 

Financing Graduate Education: Graduate Student Borrowing, Needs of the Disadvantages and Underrepresented, and the Climate for Graduate Study
Paul Butler-Nalin, Allen R. Sanderson and David N. Redman; Cambridge
, Mass.: The Consortium, 1983

 

DRI Readings in Macroeconomics
Allen R. Sanderson; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981

 

“Child-Labor Legislation and the Labor Force Participation of Children.”
The Journal of Economic History, 1974, 34 (1, The Tasks of Economic History), pp. 397-99