why you should never date an economist...
1. Economists may be dangerous. Watch out for the invisible hands!
2. It wonât matter what you supply, they will always demand more.
3. They consider selfish behavior the most natural thing in the world.
4. They prefer doing it with models and dummies.
5. Economists habitually deflate everything.
6. They like their love lives like they like their markets: free and open.
7. On average they are pretty mean.
8. And definitely too trendy.
9. They will never be happy with you as you are, they will always want you to grow.
10. They require a lot of stimulus in order to expand.
11. They will spend their lives trying to predict your behavior.
12. They consider you perfectly substitutable.
13. Theyâll only like you if you have plenty of elasticity.
14. They will always think that there is an acceptable level of unemployment.
15. As soon as you are happy in the relationship theyâll burst your bubble.
16. Theyâll only be into you if you have plenty of boom and bust.
17. Theyâll never say âI Love youâ only that âYou optimise my utilityâ.
18. They will rate your kidsâ advancement into a Human Development Index.
19. They will establish very clear household property rights to avoid the tragedy of the commons.
20. If you ever get depressed, theyâll lower their interest rate to zero.
21. They might collect a stratified household survey of family and friends, run regression and cluster analyses and check for heteroskedasticity before deciding to commit to you. (On the plus side you might get to see what your love looks like as a formula).
Source: Stolen via Jodi Beggs - Economists Do It With Models....21 reasons not to date an Economist