Economics professor featured in USA Today

RELEASED: January 3, 2008

DANVILLE, KY—Bruce Johnson, Centre College Brown Professor of Economics, was recently published in USA Today, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United States.

In the Jan. 2 issue, Johnson's "Opposing View" editorial was featured on the opinion page. In the editorial, titled "Pay student-athletics," Johnson discusses economic and academic issues relating to student-athletes.

To read Johnson's "Opposing View" editorial in USA Today, click here.

Reporters from media outlets around the nation regularly seek out Johnson for his views on various sports economics topics. He has been interviewed by such organizations as ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Sacramento Bee, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and numerous other newspapers about stadium economics, antitrust and sports, baseball labor strife, the economics of horse racing and other topics in sports economics.

To see profiles of Johnson and other expert commentators among Centre's faculty and staff, click here.

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