Friday, December 01, 2006

Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Date an Economist

1. Your dates will always be dutch, ceteris paribus, all else being equal, you pay half the bill.

2. His idea of sexy is Lorenz Curve.

3. When he finds someone new, he will say "I'm sorry but you are no longer pareto efficient, I'm moving to a higher indiffirence curve!"

4. He is timid. He will never make the first move due to asymmetric information.

5. His idea of a romantic date is being holed up in an empty classroom, and he is lecturing on Solow's growth model.

6. He is extremely competitive. He does not want you to have the comparative advantage.

7. He reminisces your relationship by running a time series regression and presents the results to you in powerpoint.

8. He believes that a relationship is like an Edgeworth box, partners must always strive to be on the contract curve.

9. He has a picture of Milton Friedman in his night stand.

10. When he makes love to you, he says "Yeah baby, stroke my Gross Domestic Product!!!!!"

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