This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of economic aspects to criminal behaviour in sport. It addresses manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions and crimes triggered by economic interests or pure greed in sports, and challenges the governance of this important industry. Topics covered include hazing, sabotage, refereeing bias, technological manipulations, tanking, bad management, financial doping, ticket touting, circumventing the law through sport, discrimination and child labour. The book is divided into three volumes. Volume I covers those economic manipulations that breach sports rules, sporting integrity, violate managerial rules and the law, and infringe human rights in sport. It builds up a typology of sport manipulations which makes sense from an economic standpoint, not only from a sporting or judicial perspective. Volumes II and III (available separately) focus on Corruption and Economic Crime in Sport, respectively. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and journalists in sports science, sports management and sports economics.

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Wladimir Andreff is Emeritus Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. He is also President of the Scientific Council at the Observatory of the Sports Economy, French Ministry for Sports, as well as Honorary President and former President (2002-05) of the International Association of Sport Economists, Honorary President of the European Sports Economics Association, former President of the French Economic Association (2007-08) and Honorary Member and former President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (1997-98). His research and teaching interests include sports economics, economics of (post-communist) transition and international economics, and he is author of 12 books, over 450 scientific articles, of which over 150 are in sports economics, and editor of 17 books published or translated in 18 languages. He is the 2019 winner of the Chelladurai Award from the European Association of Sport Management.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: A roadmap to economic violations of sport rules and the law

1.1. Sport manipulations for money 1.2. Economic dysfunctions of sport

1.3. Economic distortions through sport

1.4. Corruption in sport

1.5. Economic crime in sport

1.6. Historical perspective

1.7. Economic magnitude of the dark side of sport

1.8. Economic implications of sport manipulations

1.9. From economic awareness to political willingness

1.10. Limited trust in data

Chapter 2: Sport manipulations: breaching the sport rules to gain advantage

2.1. Non-economic manipulations of sport

2.1.1 Hazing

2.1.2 Sabotage, goading and diving

2.1.3 Cheating to win: playing with or against the rules

2.1.4 Gamesmanship

2.1.5 Refereeing biases

2.1.6 Health-compromising practices

2.1.7 Naked violence

2.1.8 Hooliganism

2.2. Violating the sport rules for competitive and economic advantage

2.2.1 Cheating to make money

2.2.2 Technological manipulations

2.2.3 Tanking and sandbagging: losing to gain a (competitive or economic) advantage

Chapter 3: Economic dysfunctions of sport: violating managerial rules and the law

3.1. Breaching managerial rules and regulations in sport

3.1.1 Bad management and weak governance

3.1.2 Circumventing the regulation against unfair financial strategies

3.1.3 Financial doping

3.1.4 Circumventing ownership rules

3.2. Violating the business laws and beyond

3.2.1. Ticket touting

3.2.2 Embezzlement, slush funds, funds diversion, fraudulent transfers

3.2.3 Fake accounting

3.2.4 Fictitious player transfers and bungs

3.2.5 Third party ownership and the financialisation of footballers as assets 3.3. Circumventing the law through sport

3.3.1 Tax evasion

3.3.2 From money laundering to murders

Chapter 4: Economic distortions: infringing human rights in sport

4.1. Discrimination in the sports business

4.1.1 Gender discrimination

4.1.2 Racial and ethnic discrimination * &...