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Love & Marriage

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Cost of Monitoring

In a two-person marriage, each person monitors the performance of the other. Each person knows that they are always being monitored by the other person. This informal monitoring arrangement does tend to bring out the best in both parties over time. But an organized system of monitoring cannot be free; whether it would repay its cost is empirical question.

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