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Conquering the dating market—from an economist’s point of view

After 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, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities—provides a useful guide to finding a mate. Using the ideas that are central to how markets and economics and dating work, Oyer shows how you can apply these ideas to take advantage of the economics in everyday life, all around you, all the time.

For all online daters—and for anyone else swimming in the vast sea of the information economy—this book uses Oyer’s own experiences, and those of millions of others, to help you navigate the key economic concepts that drive the modern age.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GQDL7MK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press (December 17, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 17, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 644 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
Reviewer: robin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I really liked it
Review: If you're a bad shopper, you might over-pay for melons at the grocery store or get taken by a car dealer. If you're a bad "shopper" in a so-called matching market, you might end up with a spouse you can't stand (or who can't stand you) and a job you hate. In short, the stakes in matching markets are high. To make matters worse, these markets are notoriously complicated: you have to both choose and be chosen and you often don't know what you are "buying" until it's too late. You have to make decisions on the basis of very incomplete information. Fortunately, with this book, you have Stanford Professor and economist Paul Oyer as your guide. He's an expert on matching markets, but rather than write about them abstractly, he uses his own experiences re-joining the dating market after a long absence as extended, instructive example. He illustrates key economic concepts simply and clearly. The book is an easy read but it is filled with ideas. It's also funny and personal---the author's warmth and self-deprecating sense of humor come through.

Reviewer: Alabama Today
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Examples, Enjoyable but Not as Funny as It Sounds
Review: I enjoyed it. It was not as funny as I was hoping it would be, but I did find some examples that I could use for teaching college economics classes.

Reviewer: Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiß, dass ich ...
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very entertaining read
Review: Disclaimer: I am an academic economist and hence my perception of what is entertaining might be different from yours. Also, I have never tried online dating so I cannot personally verify how representative the author's experiences are and how closely they relate to economic concepts.That said I greatly enjoyed reading Paul Oyer's book. It made for a highly entertaining read (I devoured the book within a few days) and while I was very familiar with (and in fact teach) many of the topics discussed in the book I still learned a few things from his perspective of the academic literature that is usually inaccessible to the layman. But the author clearly explains the sometimes complex concepts and the take-aways at the end of every chapter are very informative and yet also hilarious. The book really is an excellent combination of education and entertainment that had me yearning for more. Let's hope the author writes another book!

Reviewer: Chuteman
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Still entertaining & useful just wish it had more
Review: I purchased it after hearing Freakonomics segment. Unfortunately, it does not have as much on-line dating hints, etc as I was expecting. It has more value as an Economic & Marketing book. Still entertaining & useful just wish it had more.

Reviewer: GalGlamorous
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Humorous Intro to economics
Review: I discovered this book because my fiancee listens to Freakonomics radio and heard a hilarious fascinating interview with the writer. It has a lot of the same kind of information as Naked Economics and Freakonomics so it was the authors comic writing style that made it impossible for me to stop reading. I give this book 4 stars instead of five because while I think that it is a creative way to approach the subject matter there are things that a more statistical approach to relationships does not cover. For example, I always find a person's attitude about money and work reveals more about them than how much they do or do not have. I continuously find that the economic dilemmas of educated people in underpaid work is not considered in the correlations between earnings and educational achievements as I find myself in a network of teachers and artists. And I also thought the book disregarded women who do not expect their mates to earn more money. Or that different people find different things to be attractive. Or that at the end of the day fields like economics can help us understand the patterns that contribute to who we are but there is something about romantic love and sexual attraction that is a mystery

Reviewer: Ayman Farahat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The only dating book a couple can read together !
Review: This is a great book. As a professional in the field i found the book highly informative and i could not put it down. From moral hazard to adverse selection from Spence to Arkelof the book gives a wonderful, enjoyable and readable survey of economics. My wife also loved the book and i would venture to say that this is the only (well maybe there is another one out there ) dating book and definitely only economics book a couple can read !

Reviewer: Edoardo Angeloni
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The new facts of the globalization in economics.
Review: Why we see the most important changes of the our life in this book? The most interesting event in the global world last years is the success of Internet, particularly of Facebbok.So it born a virtual community of normal people, but following the future: they can explicate their individual values in a global context in a simple way.We should return to which Thomas Friedmann had written in "The world is flat", that is the global society likes the Greek cities,We find also important concepts, as the signaling and the adverse selection, whom become famous after the Nobel in economics to Stiglitz-Spence-Akerloff.The first concept makes us to return to Walras equilibrium theory, while the second is related to a seller of a used car.

Reviewer: Robert W. Klein
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not what you would expect from a Standford academic
Review: I have never studied nor been interested in Economics.A book on economics by a Standford professor. With that description, you'd have to pay me to read it. But not so. Oyer is more akin to my high school teacher who through love of subject & engaging personality made Latin come alive (Arnold Barbknecht - Still think of him fifty years later). Economics is transformed from what I thought to be esoteric, mathematical magic to the familiar.An old black & white movie portrayed Christopher Columbus convincing potential backers that he could accomplish the impossible by betting he could stand an egg upright on the small end without it falling over. They with confidence, take the bet. He produces a hard-boiled egg from his pocket & presses the small end to the table accomplishing what 'til then I thought was impossible. He then states, " Some thing are simple when you are shown how."Oyer is no hard-boiled egg (head), yet he makes it simple (& relevant).By sucking the romance out of the dating process (a byproduct of combing Economics with dating) he provides a great service to those searching for "the One". "The One" can only found with a heart tempered by the head.

Reviewer: Anna Pavia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Libro come da descrizione, spedizione veloce (giorno dopo), arrivato in una settimana in Italia.

Reviewer: Ran
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good read

Reviewer: elinesca
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: First chapter is very interesting - hooked me in. Was really looking forward to dig into this book - but the more I read, the less I enjoyed it. There are so many fascinating insights you could make around dating and economics - so why is the author mainly focusing around the two most well known facts in the history of dating? Women look for wealth and men look for beauty. Stereotypes! So much time is spent dwelling on this that you just wish someone would give you a fake call so you could ditch the book and do a runner.The author's fascination with the idea of signalling is terrible - having one or two special emails to send only those you really really want to meet, that be for a date or for a job interview does not seem very thought through. Consider a job applicant who sends 10-20 applications a month to find a new job - and now gets the option to mark 2 of these with a signal so the employer knows they really want to work there. If the applicant isn't right, the signal doesn't matter - the employer isn't going to award anyone an interview just because there's a signal adding weight to the intent. Now there will be 18 companies out there with jobs that could have be ideal for this candidate - if it wasn't for the fact that they are now armed with the knowledge that they aren't his first priority.The self deprecating humor fast becomes (REALLY) annoying and you wonder if the editor was on vacation before letting this book off to the press - it could have been very well written if cut down in half.Only good thing about the book is that the author in the end reveals that he did indeed find love - although not by following the advice given in his book.... Surprise!

Reviewer: Bushman
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I enjoyed the comparisons between dating sites and economic concepts like "thick markets" and could be useful if you looking for dates this way.Probably not broadly useful given his viewpoint of the world, as he touches on motivations of groups (he's prejudging by identity politics viewpoints - makes sense given macro thinking that economists employ) which is always wrong (prejudging is unreliable for identity politics, and virtually useless when looking at an individual), sometimes offensively (he appears to have the downed a few glasses of "women are wonderful" Kool-aid)