‘The Value of Others’ Isn’t Especially Valuable
April 17, 2025
Psychotherapist Orion Taraban, host of the enormously popular PyschHacks YouTube channel, has a new book out. In The Value of Others: Understanding the Economic Model of Relationships to Get (and Keep) More of What You Want in the Sexual Marketplace, he attempts to explain dating and romantic relationships through the lens of economics. It’s an interesting idea, especially to someone like me who’s written about economics for many years. But on balance, it leads to a pretty broken worldview.
Why?
