The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces

A wise and humorous memoir about a young economist trying to apply the rules of the market to his own floundering love life; unfortunately, reducing an infinitely complex world into a set of clear rational principles about the ways people behave is a whole lot more difficult when it comes to love.

"I know that this sounds like a bit of a cliché, 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...