Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating
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In this book, Paul Oyer uses his experiences with online dating to explain key economic concepts.
He compares dating sites like Match.
com, eHarmony, and OkCupid to other marketplaces such as Monster.
com and eBay, highlighting how economic principles like search, signaling, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities apply to finding a mate.
The book also shows how these economic ideas can be applied to everyday life and the broader information economy.
He compares dating sites like Match.
com, eHarmony, and OkCupid to other marketplaces such as Monster.
com and eBay, highlighting how economic principles like search, signaling, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities apply to finding a mate.
The book also shows how these economic ideas can be applied to everyday life and the broader information economy.
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