Verified, sourced work on sport governance, labor economics, and public policy — from the applied research division of Cognitive Futures Digital Libraries.
How the FIFA Forward Enterprise collapsed — and why the confederation that killed it wasn't the one that needed the money.
FIFA sends millions to federations. Almost none of it becomes a player's salary. Here's the gap, in real numbers.
The accountability record that hands football's wealthiest confederations their easiest argument.
What Britain's refusal to discuss reparations reveals about who gets to decide when a conversation happens at all.
Not money first. A specific kind of practice, repeated thousands of times.
What the IMF's 80-year voting fight teaches us about UEFA's objection to FIFA's money.
A defense of Gianni Infantino, built entirely on the verified funding record.
The strongest argument FIFA Forward Enterprise's defenders could make — presented on its own terms.
At what point does football stop being a dream and become an economically rational career?
Rejecting a false choice that costs young Zimbabweans their futures either way.
How one verified salary number becomes an entire region's labour market.
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