Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating write by Paul Oyer. This book was released on 2013-12-17. Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conquering the dating market—from an economist’s point of view After more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene—but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid. But Oyer had a secret weapon: economics. It turns out that dating sites are no different than the markets Oyer had spent a lifetime studying. Monster.com, eBay, and other sites where individuals come together to find a match gave Oyer startling insight into the modern dating scene. The arcane language of economics—search, signaling, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities—provides a useful guide to finding a mate. Using the ideas that are central to how markets and economics and dating work, Oyer shows how you can apply these ideas to take advantage of the economics in everyday life, all around you, all the time. For all online daters—and for anyone else swimming in the vast sea of the information economy—this book uses Oyer’s own experiences, and those of millions of others, to help you navigate the key economic concepts that drive the modern age.
Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating
Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating write by Paul Oyer. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conquering the dating market—from an economist’s point of view After more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene—but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid. But Oyer had a secret weapon: economics. It turns out that dating sites are no different than the markets Oyer had spent a lifetime studying. Monster.com, eBay, and other sites where individuals come together to find a match gave Oyer startling insight into the modern dating scene. The arcane language of economics—search, signaling, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities—provides a useful guide to finding a mate. Using the ideas that are central to how markets and economics and dating work, Oyer shows how you can apply these ideas to take advantage of the economics in everyday life, all around you, all the time. For all online daters—and for anyone else swimming in the vast sea of the information economy—this book uses Oyer’s own experiences, and those of millions of others, to help you navigate the key economic concepts that drive the modern age.
Dollars and Sex
Dollars and Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dollars and Sex write by Marina Adshade. This book was released on 2013-03-19. Dollars and Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like Freakonomics, Dollars and Sex takes economics and converts it into a sexy science by applying the principles of supply and demand, and other market forces, to matters of love, courtship, sex, and marriage. As she does in her hugely popular blog, author Marina Adshade explores the marketplace for sex and love using research, economic analysis, and humor to reveal just how central the interplay of libido, gender, love, power, and economic forces is to the most important choices we make in our lives. Call it "Sexonomics."
The Armchair Economist
The Armchair Economist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Armchair Economist write by Steven E. Landsburg. This book was released on 2012-05-10. The Armchair Economist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The 'obvious' answer is that the owner has a monopoly, but if that were the whole story, there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop and prices skyrocket, journalists point to the 'obvious' exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power, they'd have raised prices before the frost. Why don't concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction and others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why don't firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong, reveals better answers, and illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar, filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confessions of an Economic Hit Man write by John Perkins. This book was released on 2004-11-09. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
