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The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces
Will Nicolson
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Description for The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces
Paperback. William is an economist, which means he is 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. In this book, he sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering love life. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: BM; KC; VFVG; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198.
No one said dating was easy.
But Will seemed to be having more trouble than most. When yet another relationship ended with those dreaded words "It's not you, it's me...", he decided to change his approach. He turns to what he knows best: Economic Theory and sets out to apply the rules of economics to his floundering love life.
Want to play hard to get? Reduce your supply.
Want a girlfriend? Find an undervalued asset.
Why are all the good ones taken? That'll be the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
But things don't work out quite as he'd hoped. In fact, 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....
Product Details
Publisher
Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780721767
SKU
V9781780721767
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Ref
99-10
About Will Nicolson
William Nicolson is 26 years old and is a trainee solicitor at a City law firm. He studied Economics and Politics at Edinburgh University, and his love life - we're pleased to report - has never been better.
Reviews for The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces
The book has a great deal in common with the memoir-primer hybrid made popular by Alain de Botton - It functions as a sociological account of being young in the Noughties, offering reflections on Facebook, the 'lunch date', gender inequality, and the phrase 'fair game'.
Mail on Sunday
Disarmingly simple - Nicolson is a likeable, self-deprecating narrator.
Observer
A jewel of a book - In its quirkiness and sheer unlikeliness - Popular history writing at its cleverest and most enjoyable best.
Mail on Sunday
Mail on Sunday
Disarmingly simple - Nicolson is a likeable, self-deprecating narrator.
Observer
A jewel of a book - In its quirkiness and sheer unlikeliness - Popular history writing at its cleverest and most enjoyable best.
Mail on Sunday