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Mr. Gans insists that "Parentonomics" is not a manual, yet much of it, when the gloss of economics-speak is scraped away, amounts to little more than parenting advice.
Family Business 2009
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Unfortunately, the bulk of "Parentonomics" concentrates less on bringing an economist's shrewd analysis to the relationship between parents and children than on recounting an economist's at-home experiences with his own kids.
Family Business 2009
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It doesn't help that throughout the book he refers to his offspring as Child No. 1, Child No. 2 and Child No. 3, which at times makes "Parentonomics" sound like nothing so much as a police incident report.
Family Business 2009
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The latest entry in this increasingly threadbare genre is "Parentonomics," in which the Australian economist Joshua Gans sees parenthood as an effort to persuade children "to do various things, from sleeping, eating, toileting, and behaving to refraining from lying, cheating, stealing and the use of violence."
Family Business 2009
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The creator of Trixietracker, Ben MacNeill, has even created different kinds of visualisation to help show different kinds of pattern - such as Parentonomics (a book by an economist who apparently tried applying economic theory to his parenting - how do incentives work, for instance?) called this kind of analysis data-driven parenting.
jill/txt 2008
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The good news is that he is going to be putting some of his ideas to work in a book — Parentonomics — that should be coming out in a few months.
The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Here's the conclusion of Daniel Akst's Wall St. Journal review of Parentonomics: It's a pity that Mr. Gans misses the chance to cover the most interesting question an economist might address in the parenting arena: Why he decided to have...
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The good news is that he is going to be putting some of his ideas to work in a book — Parentonomics — that should be coming out in a few months.
The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Doing an interview tonight for BBC World Service on Parentonomics.
Core Economics 2009
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The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes. com
The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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