Marina Adshade
Economist and writer
Marina Adshade is an economist at the University of British Columbia who looks at sex and love through an economic lens.
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About Marina Adshade
Marina Adshade earned a doctorate at Queen's University and teaches economics at the University of British Columbia. In 2008 she started an undergraduate course called Economics of Sex and Love, which drew international media attention. Her Dollars and Sex series began on the website Big Think and moved to her own homepage in October 2012. She writes regularly for the Globe and Mail and Canadian Business Magazine, and has appeared on CTV and CBC. She has also contributed to Time and the Wall Street Journal.