Emotion and Calculation : Marriage Markets and Match Making From Early Modernity to the Present

Love and economics are usually considered to be opposites: While love is seen as an irrational, unexplainable and ungovernable feeling towards another person, economics is regarded as the art of egoistic, profit-oriented, rational calculations and actions. But are they, really? By examining a wide r...

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Main Authors: Annika Nickenig, Esther Schomacher
Format: Book
Published: Brill | Fink 2025
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