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Everything I ever needed to know about economics I learned from online dating / Paul Oyer.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, 2014Description: viii, 241 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781422191651 (hardback : acidfree paper)
  • 1422191656 (hardback : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.730285
LOC classification:
  • HQ 801.82 O98e 2014
Summary: Conquering the dating market-from an economist's point of viewAfter 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, ad Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HQ 801.82 O98e 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000171128

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conquering the dating market-from an economist's point of viewAfter 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, ad
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