Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Love, Money, and Parenting
Matthias Doepke · 2020
81/100
👍 Worth It
A rigorous, data-driven argument from two credentialed economists that parenting styles are rational responses to economic inequality — and the evidence marshaled from medieval Europe to contemporary Scandinavia is genuinely persuasive. Accessible enough for non-economists and substantive enough for policy professionals. Secular in framework and unlikely to satisfy readers looking for spiritual dimensions of parenting, but as social science it is strong.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance86
craft80
originality82
accuracy84
hype85
age-fit82
human-eye80
Penny’s verdict81
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