This text uses statistical and documentary evidence to illustrate how football works as a business, and the techniques of business strategy to explain why some clubs are winners and others are not. After a historical description of football's finances, the book moves to a contemporary analysis of the state of the game financially. Embedded in the text are various analyses of the modern English game including a league table of major teams that compares success on the field with that off the field since the war.
A well-known columnist's succinct comments on the qualities and values of people who are successes and those who are failures are complemented by interpretive illustrations
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Of Winners, Losers, and Games
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This book looks at the way primarily external actors influenced and were influenced by the revolutionary chaos that erupted in the Arab Middle East in 2011.
Still, most who say they use sectoral approaches will likely point to the same motley crew of intellectual forebears: Alexander Gerschenkron, Raymond Vernon, Robert Gilpin, James Kurth, A. G. Hopkins, H. A. Innis, M. H. Watkins, ...
Guillermo de la Dehesa, current Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, offers an objective and dispassionate analysis of the emotionally charged globalization debate, detailing the economic effects of globalization on ...