PRIMAULT, Didier <br/><br/>
De la nécessaire régulation économique des sports collectifs porfessionnels ou des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde sportif et de la science économique 

 - Paris :  ENA,  janv./mars 2001 
<br/><br/> Sporting competition cannot prosper in a liberal economic universe. In the United States of America a form of regulation has been put in place by different sporting organisations and concerns the allocation of financial resources to clubs (notably television rights) and the allocation of salaries ( whith the `draft' and 'salary-cap' systems). The objective is to maintain a degree of uncertainty which ensures public satisfaction together with the economic success of teh sporting industry. As for France, the regulatory mechanisms which have been set up are no longer appropriate, given the strong  movement in the last ten years towards deregulation -and more specifically deregulation linked to the European Community, illustrated by the Bosman case in 1995. It is necessary, therefore, to try out a new form of regulation