Dating, Marriage, and the Costs of Search

The Answer Is Transaction Costs

Jun 13 2023 • 21 mins

Episode 6 takes up the question of "matching," and the transaction costs of dating and marriage.  Some resources:

Ashley Madison: "Is It Real?"

Garrison Keillor, "We are Still Married"

Michael Munger, on "Calculation" and socialist economics, at AIER

Michael Munger and Russ Roberts, on "Econtalk: WIld Problems"

Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts, on "Making Your Own Economy"

Intellectual Property and the Problem of the Anti-Commons

Background on search cost and optimal stopping:



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