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020 $a9781780721026 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aHQ801$b.N524 2013
100 1 $aNicolson, William.
245 14 $aThe romantic economist :$ba story of love and market forces /$cWilliam Nicolson.
264 1 $aLondon :$bShort Books,$c2013.
300 $a204 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.About this Book: Assumptions and Qualifications -- 3.Playing Hard to Get: Supply and Demand -- 4.Too Good to be True: The Efficient Market Hypothesis -- 5.The 'You'll Do' Horizon: Market Power -- 6.The Wine Bluffer's Dilemma: Game Theory -- 7.He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Signalling Preferences Under Uncertainty -- 8.The Hugh Grant Paradox : Signalling Preferences Under Uncertainty (Part Two) -- 9.The Bartle of the Diaries: Bargaining Power -- 10.Going Exclusive: Investment -- 11.Fruit Punch and Flirtatious Girlfriends: The Strategy of Conflict -- 12.Hiding the Crazy: Credible Threats -- 13.That Empty Feeling: Sunk Costs and Opportunity Costs -- 14.Calling It a Day: Backwards Induction.
520 $aThe author sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering love life. For a time, everything seems to be clearer, but soon he finds himself more isolated than ever. It looks like economics doesn't have all the answers after all. Not, that is, until John Maynard Keynes comes along...
600 10 $aNicolson, William$xRelations with women.
650 0 $aDating (Social customs)$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aMan-woman relationships$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aEconomists$zGreat Britain$vAnecdotes.