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 (Miss Manners) also asks that you not bore her with explaining the comparative quality of marital and nonmarital relationships, especially when using the term "honesty" or asking the nonsensical question of what difference a piece of paper makes. Miss Manners has a safe-deposit box full of papers that make a difference. (Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior)
One way of looking at marriage is as a rather odd sort of package deal, an exchange in which the two parties agree to share income, housing, sexual favors, and activities such as cooking meals, cleaning house, washing dishes, and rearing children. Seen from this standpoint, a marriage is simply a particular kind of two-person firm.
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Editor's Note: Now that we have at least a sketch of an economic theory of marriage, we might as well do something with it. One obvious thing to do is to explain the decline of marriage in the United States and similar societies over the course of the past century. Why has marriage become less common and why has the effective term of the contract become so much shorter?
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