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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University

Ticket Brokers and Scalping

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 35.1

Click on this article

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj15n1-4.html

Comment on the authors’ contention that laws against scalping are “folly.”  Folly, in this context, because the laws serve no real economic purpose and are very difficult to enforce.

Question 35.2

Click on this article

http://sport.vic.gov.au/web/srv/srvimages.nsf/Images/scalpingfinalpaper/$File/finalpaper.pdf

Read the executive summary of this article and comment on this Australian Provincial government’s efforts to curb scalping. (The AFL is the Australian Football League; what we call rugby.)





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