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When does marriage make economic sense?

By XN Iraki

Economists love equations and models. They often avoid soft issues that are hard to fit into their models and equations. Yet, it is such issues that occupy our time, energy and minds. Such issues include love, anger and motivation. To give credit where it is due, some economists have embraced such soft issues and spawned a new branch of economics-behavioural economics-which borrows a lot from psychology.

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