Sport jako przedmiot zainteresowania nauk ekonomicznych – wybrane aspekty
Sport as the subject of interest of economic sciences – selected aspects

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt at preliminary identification of main areas and aspects of interest in sport in economic sciences, along with indication of how it is expressed in the system of national accounts. The authors start their analysis with a microeconomic approach within which they pay attention to the distinction between sports as a hobby and sports as a profession and the significance of those two forms of sport activity from the standpoint of the increase in life quality and welfare (well-being). They also indicate factors which increase the role of sports and physical education in socio-economic development in contemporary economies and societies. The authors pay also attention to growing interdependencies taking contemporarily place between doing sports as a hobby (amateur sports) and professional sports. Furthermore, they emphasize that interest in sport from the perspective of economics of sport and sports management is ever (and in the case of contemporary professional sports in particular) connected with the financial knowledge. In the second part of the paper, an attempt at conceptual recognition of sport sector as a part of the national economy has been undertaken. In this attempt, the authors identify a narrow and a broader concept of statistical measurement of this sector in the national accounts system. Based on the subject literature, they present estimates of the size of sport sector in the EU-27 countries from the point of view of gross value added (GDP), share in total employment and inter-sectoral relationships (multiplier effects of sport sector). Those estimates form the basis for recommendations concerning the use of sport activities for supporting the economic development.

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