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Spousonomics, using economics to master love, marriage and dirty dishes, Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson

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Spousonomics

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Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson

using economics to master love, marriage and dirty dishes

Marriage is a mysterious, often irrational business. Making it work till death do you part--or just till the end of the week--isn't always easy. And no one ever handed you a user's manual. Until now. Here, Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson offer something new: a clear-eyed, rational route to demystifying your disagreements and improving your relationship. The key, they propose, is to think like an economist. Economics is the study of resource allocation, after all. How do we--as partners in a society, a business, or a marriage--spend our limited time, money, and energy? And how do we allocate these resources most efficiently? Spousonomics answers these questions by taking classic economic concepts and applying them to the domestic front.--From publisher description

Division of labor, or, why you should do the dishes -- Loss aversion, or, the upside of going to bed angry -- Supply and demand, or, how to have more sex -- Moral hazard, or, the too-big-to-fail marriage -- Incentives, or, how to get your spouse to do what you want -- Tradeoffs, or, the art of getting over it -- Asymmetric information, or, why you should tell your partner stuff -- Intertemporal choice, or, being a good person when you get around to it -- Bubbles, or, making the good times last -- Game theory, or, how strategizing like Khrushchev and manipulating like Kennedy can make for a blissful marriage