How to get the most out of ordering in a restaurant

Imagine you’re out to dinner with a date. You’re looking at the menu thinking about what you will have. Now you may not immediately think that economics could play a part in explaining what happens next, but Megan McArdle has been thinking about just that. She’s the author of The Upside of Down and a columnist at Bloomberg View. She explains to Tim Harford that couples – and indeed she and her husband – go through four stages of how they choose their food.

First broadcast on More or Less, 11 December 2016.