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"There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book uses a case study of the wealthy southern city of Bristol as the starting point for the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 questions what it meant to be asked to contribute financially to the hospital by the medical social worker, known then as the Lady Almoner, or to subscribe to a pseudo-insurance hospital contributory scheme. It challenges the false assumption that middle-class paying patients crowded out the sick poor. Hopes and fears, at the time and since, that this would have an empowering or democratising effect or that commercial medicine would bring about the end of medical charity, were all wide of the mark. In fact, payment and philanthropy found a surprisingly traditional accommodation, which ensured the rise of universal healthcare was mitigated and mediated by long-standing class distinctions while financial contribution became a new marker of good citizenship. Anyone interested in these changing notions of citizenship, charity and money, as well as the hospital as a social institution within the community in early twentieth-century Britain, will find this book a valuable companion."

commercial medicine --- nhs --- national health service --- british healthcare --- payment --- medical charity --- hospitals --- healthcare

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Sports economics is a relatively new field of research that is experiencing rapid growth in the economics literature. The importance of the sports industry to economies coupled with the availability of financial and productivity data have made the study of sports economics a useful avenue for exploring research questions that have eluded mainstream economics fields. The main goal of this Special Issue of the International Journal of Financial Studies is to encourage theoretical and applied research in sports economics, which is of interest to both academics and practitioners. For this purpose, this Special Issue on “Sports Finance” invites papers on topics, such as, but not limited to, salary determination, ticket pricing, revenue sharing, salary caps, competitive balance, new stadium financing, rival league behavior, determinants of revenue, television and media, tournament prize structures, financial distress in professional sports, financial fair play, financial control of sports clubs, Third Party Ownership, financial efficiency in professional sports, budget constrains and sport performance, financial information of sports, ownership of professional sport clubs and Crowdfunding in sports. Papers on both professional and amateur sports are welcome.

earnings persistence --- accruals --- earnings predictability --- European football clubs --- financial fair play --- revenue sharing --- welfare --- moments --- risk aversion --- sports finance --- soft budget constraint --- payment failure --- disequilibrium modelling --- segmented labour market --- French soccer --- football --- audit fees --- audit shopping --- Financial Fair Play --- UEFA --- JEL Classification --- Z2 --- M41 --- M42 --- football --- regulation --- financial fair play --- financial recovery --- polarization --- finance --- financial health --- cricket --- professional team sport --- profit maximisation --- subsidy --- grants --- attendance --- hockey --- fighting --- uncertainty of outcome --- bonuses --- effort --- fighter performance --- mixed martial arts (MMA) --- Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) --- World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) --- Zuffa LLC --- college sports --- finances --- economics --- NHL --- KHL --- country of origin --- salary