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Cato Video • September 21, 2017 

# Government Spending and the Olympics 

In the fall issue of Regulation magazine, Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist writes about the Olympic experience and explains what drove a failed effort by Boston to get the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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##### Andrew Zimbalist