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A Story of Love and Market Forces
Atria
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
210 pages
ISBN: 1476730415
EAN: 9781476730417
Kindle: B00C0CPDKI
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A wise and humorous memoir about a young economist trying to apply the rules of the market to his own floundering dating life.
βI know that this sounds like a bit of a clichΓ©, but really, itβs not youβ¦β The woman who said this to William Nicolson was funny, talented and unbearably beautiful. His mother said he ought to marry that girl. And he lost her in a personal best time of six weeks.
It was when he found himself being dumped like this yet again that he decided something had to be done. William is an economist, which means heβs good at reducing an infinitely complex world into a set of clear, rational principles about the way people and markets behave. Unfortunately, he has never been able to replicate this in the world of romance. Girls confuse him; theyβre the very definition of infinite complexity.
In this book, he sets out to apply the rules of economics to his shaky love life. For a time, everything seems to be clearer. Want to play hard to get? Reduce your supply. Want a girlfriend? Find an undervalued asset. Why are all the good ones taken? Thatβll be the Efficient Market Hypothesis. But things donβt work out quite as heβd hoped, and heβs more isolated than ever. Can he find the perfect economic theory to rescue him from a future of lonely nights, or is the dating game too intricate to be won by logical, rational thinking?
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