The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces - Couverture souple

Nicolson, William

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9781476730417: The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces

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ISBN 10 : 1476730415 ISBN 13 : 9781476730417

Editeur : Atria Books/Marble Arch Press, 2014

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I know that this sounds like a bit of a clich�, but really, it s not you... His torturer was funny, talented, and unbearably beautiful. His mother had said she wanted him to marry her. And he had lost her in a personal best time of six weeks. It was when he found himself being dumped like this yet again that William Nicolson decided something had to be done.
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. Girls confuse him.
In this book, he sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering 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? 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...

Revue de presse :

"William's funny, rueful and engaging book does provide a very handy guide to the fascinating enigma that is the twenty-something male psyche." --Daily Mail "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 lighthearted tale of love and market forces." --- New York Journal of Books, David E. Spiro

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