The number of unwanted Paris Olympics tickets available for resale has hit more than a quarter of a million, as lack of demand increases concerns just days before Friday’s opening ceremony that many athletes will compete against a backdrop of empty seats. The number of listings rose to 270,465 on Monday, up from about 180,000 a […]
France faces glut of unwanted Olympics tickets
France faces glut of unwanted Olympics tickets
24 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
Extinction Rebellion Dweebs Get Shutdown Quickly on The PGA Tour
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, sports economics Tags: cranks
Climate Activists from Extinction Rebellion Set off Smoke Bombs as they STORM THE GREEN at the 18th Hole of the PGA Tour as SCOTTIE SCHEFFLERS was finishing his game.
Extinction Rebellion Dweebs Get Shutdown Quickly on The PGA Tour
Boys are faster than women
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
More on how trans female athletes damage women’s sports
06 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, sports economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Quillette has a published a “case study” showing how one transgender female athlete can wreak substantial damage not just on one woman, or on one sport, but on a ton of women and in five sports (basketball, rowing, volleyball, tae kwon do, and track). I won’t belabor this, for I’ve already written a lot about […]
More on how trans female athletes damage women’s sports
‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics
20 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, sports economics Tags: France, Olympic Games
There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games. … Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told those nations planning on installing air conditioning at the athletes’ village to “trust the science” instead..
‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics
Professional Sports and the Lack of Local Economic Payoffs
15 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, sports economics, urban economics
I’m a sports fan, which in this case may represent a conflict of interest, because it means I’m conflicted about public subsidies going to sports stadiums. The economic evidence on this point is pretty clear: such subsidies can transfer how people spend their entertainment dollars from one area of a city to another, but the net…
Professional Sports and the Lack of Local Economic Payoffs
The convoluted history of sex testing in the Olympics
04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, sports economics Tags: sex discrimination
The article below, recounting the Olympics’ tortuous attempts to distinguish members of sexes for women’s sports, comes from the Reality’s Last Stand Substack site. It’s by Linda Blade, identified as “a sport performance professional coach in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [PhD Kinesiology; ChPC in T&F] who trains athletes in many different sports, mentors coaches, and advocates […]
The convoluted history of sex testing in the Olympics
Entrepreneurship
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, sports economics, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurship
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Mission creep at the FFRF
19 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, sports economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
One of my favorite secular organizations is the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), of which I’m a member of the “honorary board”. But even honorary boards should play an advisory role, and so I’m doing that here by calling attention to the organization’s mission creep. In previous posts, I noted that the organization, which is […]
Mission creep at the FFRF
Boys are faster
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
How England’s football league is breaking the sport
26 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, sports economics
Some religions are more equal than others?!
08 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism, sports economics Tags: Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left
Another gender gap
12 Sep 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, sports economics Tags: evolutionary biology, sex discrimination
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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