List of Figures List of Tables Preface Prologue: A field of dreams Chapter 1: Introduction: We're going to Build a City The Problem Chapter 2: The Homes of the Braves: Atlanta Becomes Major League Chapter 3: America's Addiction: The Path to Stadium Mania Chapter 4: The Seen and the Unseen: Economics of Stadiums and Broken Windows Chapter 5: The Stadium Replacement Cycle: What Will the Next Construction Wave Cost? Chapter 6: Disposable Stadiums: Selling More than a Ballgame Chapter 7: Other People's Money: Incentivized Opulence This One Will Be Different Chapter 8: The Braves Way: Crossing Lester Maddox's Bridge Chapter 9: It Takes a Ballpark Village: Mixed-use and Zero-sum Chapter 10: How to Make $300 Million Disappear: Fiscal Illusion Chapter 11: Merchants of Hope: Spreading Pseudo-Economics Taking Inventory Chapter 12: The Rooster and the Sun: Understanding Causality Chapter 13: A Home Run for Cobb?: Return on Investment Chapter 14: If You Build It, Who Will Come?: The Visitor Economy Chapter 15: You Can't Put a Price on a Billion Dollar Stadium: Intangible Public Goods Chapter 16: Nobody Goes There Anymore, It's Too Crowded: Development Externalities Chapter 17: Is There an Economic Case for Public Stadiums?: A Requiem for Market Failure Why Does This Keep Happening? Chapter 18: Monopoly Money: Empty Threats and Cheap Talk Chapter 19: Snake Oil Scales: Developing More than Players Chapter 20: The Cocktail Party Consensus: Your Friendly Neighborhood Growth Coalition Chapter 21: The Chamber (of Secrets): How the Braves Really Came to Cobb Chapter 22: Democracy Interrupted: Politicians Versus the People Chapter 23: Fake News: Accidental Advocates and Editorial Sycophants Chapter 24: Shoot Anything That Flies: Doing "Economic Development" Denial Chapter 25: Ex-Post Parley: Experiencing the Braves Way Chapter 26: Moving the Fences In: If you Torture the Data Long Enough, It Will Confess Chapter 27: Shilling for a Stadium: Buying Credibility Accepting Responsibility Chapter 28: Improving Policy: Kicking Billionaires off the Dole Chapter 29: The Road to Recovery: This One Will Not be Different Appendix A Historical Database of US Major-League Venues Notes References Plates Index.