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Customer preferences, attendance and the racial structure of professional basketball teams

Richard C. K. Burdekin Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College, 500 E. Ninth Street, Claremont, California, 91711, USA
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Todd L. Idson Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, 10027, USA
Pages 179-186 | Published online: 20 Oct 2008

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