Shane Sanders

Shane Sanders is Professor of Sports Economics in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and has published more than 50 academic articles in the areas of political economy, sports economics, and sport health. Many of these articles have appeared in leading journals of economics, statistics, and sports medicine, including Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Economics Letters (4), Public Choice (6), Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, JAMA Network, Journal of Sports Economics (3), Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Theory and Decision, Journal of Economic Education, European Journal of Political Economy, and several others. For his collaborative research efforts, Sanders has received numerous grants, as well as a Finalist Award at the 2019 Carnegie Mellon Sport Analytics Conference. Sanders teaches courses in sports economics and sport analytics at Syracuse University and also serves as a basketball analytics consultant. His work in basketball analytics has supported 3 League Championships at the professional level. In his teaching, Sanders enjoys the challenge of reducing complex ideas into their simplest elements and then building those ideas back up for students in a relatable manner. Moreover, he believes that economics literacy could be much greater in contemporary societies toward the betterment of humanity and that it is partly the role of economics professors to help realize this potential.