[GEOG MAJORS] ECON 216 Economics of Sports - new Winter course without prerequisites!

[Nell Gross via geogu-l]

We have a brand new Econ course that is scheduled to be offered in Winter 2025.

ECON 216 Economics of Sports
Sln 22391
TTh 1:30-3:20pm
SAV 131
No prerequisites

Why do the world's largest countries underperform in the world's most popular sport? Do cities benefit from subsidizing the building of a new stadium? How have new policies changed the bargaining power between college athletes, the universities they attend, and professional sports leagues? Do athletes and coaches always make decisions that improve the chance of winning games?

This Economics of Sports is a wide-ranging topic that draws from multiple areas of economics to understand one of the largest industries in the world. This course will discuss these and many other questions that are relevant to athletes, fans, and sports businesses in order to analyze the complicated ways that this multi-trillion dollar industry functions (and the ways that it fails). Not limited to any one sport, country, or area of economics, this course encourages students to develop critical thought that curious students can apply to the world around them, no matter their relationship to the world of sports.

Thank you,
Ahna

Ahna Kotila (she/her)
Academic Services Director
Department of Economics

314 Savery Hall, Box 353330
Seattle, WA  98195-3330
akotila at uw.edu<mailto:akotila at uw.edu> / https://econ.washington.edu

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