Tras la senda de Galileo: deporte como economía

• Ignacio Palacios-Huerta ^[1]
  1. [1] London School of Economics and Political Science

     London School of Economics and Political Science

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Papeles de economía española, ISSN 0210-9107, Nº 159, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Deporte y Economía), págs. 12-30
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    El enfoque económico es aplicable a todo el comportamiento humano, lo que significa que cualquier tipo de dato acerca de la actividad humana, incluida la práctica deportiva, es útil para evaluar teorías económicas. El deporte es, en muchos aspectos, un laboratorio perfecto para tratar de obtener intuiciones novedosas sobre la manera en que los humanos tomamos decisiones: se dispone de una gran cantidad de datos, los objetivos de los participantes que compiten no suelen ser complicados, los resultados están extremadamente claros, los participantes son profesionales con experiencia y lo que está en juego suele ser importante. Este campo relativamente reciente de la ciencia económica está recibiendo una importante atención entre la literatura especializada. El presente artículo revisa algunos estudio que, tomando como base esta perspectiva, utilizan datos procedentes del deporte para ayudar a la economía.

  • English

    The general applicability of the economic approach to human behavior means that any data about human activity is useful to evaluate economic theories, including sports. And sports are in many ways the perfect laboratory to try to obtain novel insights into human decision-making. There is an abundance of data, the goals of the participants are often uncomplicated, the outcomes extremely clear, the stakes high, and the subjects professionals with experience. This is a novel field in Economics that is gaining substantial attention in the literature. This chapter reviews recent research that uses sports data to help Economics from this perspective.

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