Economic principles can be used to understand human actions in other areas besides the presuit of good and services. Why is this so??? Because people value good and services much like they value @$$. To recieve products one has to trade for it, to recieve @$$ one has to trade for it. There is a large array of products in our modern economy and people persue them so they can be happy. There is a large array of @$$ in our society and people persue it so they can be happy.
Basically economics is how people interact with eachother to get as much as they can/want while giving up the least. This can be in terms of product or @$$.
These are randon thoughts on how econonomics aplies to sociology.
Originally posted by coldcoal
I think the original idea is better stated in the law of diminishing returns, ie. too much of a good thing.
Your favorite food is pizza. You are then fed pizza every single day, 3 times a day, indefinately. Nothing but pizza. Eventually, your stomach will turn at the thought of pizza. You'll hate it. You'll want something else.
Moral?
AFC's are like pizza.
Interesting topics here:
The law of diminishing returns would parallel a situation in which a set of one sex was placed into a room then one by one the other sex was introduced. Each additional member of the sex that was added would pull less and less of what he wanted as other members of the same sex were introduced. (This assumes that all the members of the same sex are identicial)
Point: Don't go to sausage parties.
On to the pizza:
This is called utility preference. What this means is that as one gets more and more of something they are willing to trade less and less for it. For you math majors out there think of it as a funcion that increases at a decreasing rate with "happyness" on the Y and quanity on the X.
1)Point: If one has a large quanity of the opposite sex they are willing to trade/(do things) less and less for the next member of the opposite sex that come along and is available to them.
2)Point: (With several things assumed this is the proof of why being a mystery/playing hard to get works)
Mystery: Go back to the graph and place "what she wants to know about you" on the Y and "what she knows about you on the X. It is in a womans nature to find out about a man, so initally she will want to know alot about you. As she knows more and more about you she will want to know the next thing less and less. This is alittle stretch but get the general idea.
Playing hard to get: On the graph place "time with you" on the Y and "time spent with you" on the X. If she does not spend alot of time with you she will be willing to trade more for it. Willing to trade more for it is equal to saying that she wants it more.
Hopefully you can see why playing hard to get only works in the short run. Eventally she will know alot about you and that part of her that is willing to trade for your time will decrease until it reaches a point where she is no longer will to trade her time for the sole purpose of filling her inate need of finding out more about you.
But play this it works like hell for awhile, becasue women have that strong need to find out about you.
HuuHunb is the only one that know S&D so I ain't typing how that can be used.
With all this said it ain't going to help you get laid a damn bit tho, but it might have a cheeseball effect.