The Romantic Economist: How to solve the girlfriend problem: A Story of Love and Market Forces

The Romantic Economist: How to solve the girlfriend problem: A Story of Love and Market Forces

by WilliamNicolson (Author)

Synopsis

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. 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. And for a time at least, everything seems to be clearer - 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 -

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
Published: 06 Feb 2014

ISBN 10: 1780721765
ISBN 13: 9781780721767

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.