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Phelps Gates (Chapel Hill, NC USA) –

  

  

There are plenty of books about what’s wrong with college sports, often in the “ain’t-it-awful” genre, and a long article in the latest Atlantic is an indictment of the way “student-athletes” are exploited. Clotfelter’s book is a more balanced account: he’s an economist and he gives an excellent description of just what the costs and benefits are of big-time college sports, both tangible and intangible. And the book explains how colleges got into the entertainment business in the first place and why they’re not likely to leave it any time soon. He doesn’t neglect the exploitation issue, and suggests various ways in which it could be fixed (but probably won’t be). His analysis has some surprises and I learned a lot.

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