If You Build It, They Might Not Come: The Risky Economics of Sports Stadiums
The trials of the Phoenix Coyotes, the least popular hockey team in the NHL, offer a lesson in public debt and defeat
Pat Garofalo
Pat Garofalo is the author of The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs, from which this piece is adapted, and the managing editor of TalkPoverty.org.