Marina Adshade

Marina Adshade uses engaging research, human insight, and economic analysis to unlock the mysteries behind our actions, thoughts and preferences regarding sexual relationships, gender, love and power. She shows that every option, every decision and every outcome in the realm of sex and love is better understood through economics. The end result is a fascinating, and often humorous, look at just how central the interplay of romance and economic forces is to the most important choices we make in our lives.

Marina has spent the last twelve years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an immediate hit with students and, by the time the first term started, had generated international media attention.

Today, Marina is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, Time.com and the Huffington Post. Her work has received attention from around the globe; The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Economist, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Men’s Health, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, Fox
News, CBC Radio and Canada AM, to name but a few, have sought her expertise on how the relationship between love, libido and markets.

Dr. Adshade has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University and currently teaches economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.