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Title

The National Collegiate Athletic Association : a study in cartel behavior / Arthur A. Fleisher, Brian L. Goff, and Robert D. Tollison.

Author

Fleisher, Arthur A.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Goff, Brian L.
• Tollison, Robert D.

Description

xi, 190 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Intercollegiate sports is an enterprise that annually grosses over $1 billion in income. Some schools may receive more than $20 million from athletic programs, perhaps as much as $10 million simply from the sale of football tickets. Drawing on nontechnical economic data, the authors present a persuasive case that the premier sports organization of colleges and universities in the United States--the NCAA--is a cartel, its members engaged in classically defined restrictive practices for the sole purpose of jointly maximizing their profits. This fresh perspective on the NCAA offers explanations of why illicit payments to athletes persist, why non-NCAA organizations have not flourished, and why members have readily agreed on certain suspect rules. Tracing the historical development of this institutional behavior, the authors argue that the major football powers in the early 1950s were able to gain control of the internal processes of NCAA enforcement. Over time--as other schools' teams improved and began to win on the playing field--the more powerful institutions applied pressure to bring the newcomers under NCAA investigation and, ultimately, to place them on probation. By carefully managing NCAA enforcement regulations, major schools blunted the threat to their continued growth presented by other teams. Offering a valuable case study for sports analysts and students of economics and cartel behavior, this book is a revealing glimpse inside the embattled NCAA.

Subject

• National Collegiate Athletic Association > Finance
• 1906-1989
• Cartels > United States > Case studies
• College sports > Case studies. > United States

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The NCAA as a Cartel -- 2. Economic Theory and the NCAA -- 3. A Synoptic History of the NCAA -- 4. Inside the NCAA -- 5. NCAA Enforcement -- 6. NCAA Academic Requirements as Barriers to Entry -- 7. Capture of the NCAA Regulatory Process -- 8. The State of NCAA Policy.

ISBN

0226253260

LCCN

^^^91026437^

OCLC

• 24064982
• SCSB-10093571

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library