Prior to launching Speed Date, Dan worked for IBM’s Business Consulting Services.He also spent time in Lazard’s Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Group and at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation where he sourced investments in agriculture and information technology in the Philippines.And so when we think about a place where investing and getting what you really want is particularly valuable, it seems like the market for a life partner is hard to beat.

It has a lot of the same kind of information as Naked Economics and Freakonomics so it was the authors comic writing style that made it impossible for me to stop reading.

And if I want to buy a new house and I go from open house to open house, I could be doing other things.

However, we invest in those search costs because it’s worth it, because we get something we really want.

He's an expert on matching markets, but rather than write about them abstractly, he uses his own experiences re-joining the dating market after a long absence as extended, instructive example.

He illustrates key economic concepts simply and clearly.