Switching costs and sports
August 20th, 2008Author: Ryan Manuel
As a further to last week’s article on sport and markets, this article in today’s Australian shows the dilemma facing modern sports administrators, with one of our top javelin prospects moving to the NRL instead
When there is a better funded, non-Olympic sport people will generally switch. There aren’t too many 17 year old boys who would choose differently.
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