Treats falling in love as a market, with all the frictions, information problems, and eventual failures that implies.
What you will do
Twelve weeks of applying real market machinery — search costs, signaling, screening, stable matching, bargaining, mechanism design — to romantic relationships, treated as seriously as any other market this department teaches. You'll design a fictional profile and defend its signals, sit a midterm on what you'd actually say in the moment, redesign a mechanism that's failing, and finish with an audit of a case of your own choosing that also argues for what the model can't see.
Who it is for
Anyone who has taken an introductory microeconomics or game theory unit and wants to see the tools pointed somewhere the textbook never does. No personal dating history is assumed, required, or graded — every assignment works on fictional personas and hypothetical cases.