In the Quest for Love, Costs vs. Benefits
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IS love for sale? Maybe not quite as directly as sex is, but economists believe that the quest for a romantic partner obeys essentially the same cost-benefit logic that governs every other market. Economists may seem soulless, unlikely guides to affairs of the heart. But " Dollars and Sex, " a delightful book by Marina Adshade, an economist at the University of British Columbia, may convince you otherwise. In the book, to be published in April by Chronicle Books, she summarizes her own research and that of other economists, and shows that forces of supply and demand indeed loom large in the implicit market for romance.
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