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Author Nicolson, William.

Title Romantic economist : a story of love and market forces / William Nicolson ; [illustrations, Andrew Smith].

Publication Info. New York : Marble Arch Press, 2014.
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  646.77 N548    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  646.77 NI    Check Shelf
Edition First Marble Arch Press trade paperback edition.
Description 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents About this book: Assumptions and qualifications -- Playing hard to get: supply and demand -- Too good to be true: the efficient market hypothesis -- The "you'll do' horizon: market power -- The wine bluffer's dilemma: game theory -- He loves me, he loves me not: signalling preferences under uncertainty -- The Hugh Grant paradox : signalling preferences under uncertainty (part two) -- The battle of the diaries: bargaining power -- Going exclusive: investment -- Fruit punch and flirtatious girlfriends: the strategy of conflict -- Hiding the crazy: credible threats -- That empty feeling: sunk costs and opportunity costs -- Calling it a day: backwards induction -- Finding Keynesian love.
Summary The 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.
Subject Nicolson, William -- Relations with women.
Dating (Social customs) -- Anecdotes.
Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes.
Economists -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 1476730415
9781476730417
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