ECON 174

Economics of Sports

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Recommended: courses 103/103L. Course in applied microeconomics that employs both theoretical and empirical tools to analyze wide range of topics related to sports industry. Topics include history of labor relations in professional sports, history and analysis of player salaries in professional sports, market for professional sports franchises and sports broadcast rights, league expansion and relocation decisions, understanding of role of economic impact studies (cost-benefit analysis) and public/private partnerships in facility financing, relationship between academics and athletics in collegiate sports, racial discrimination in sports, exploration of behavioral issues such as strategic effort, measuring return on investment from sport sponsorships, and calculation of economic damages in legal cases involving athletes.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisites: courses 11, 41, 101.

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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 174

ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 1Principles of Economics
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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