I had a lot of fun this week reading through Emily Oster’s book Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong in preparation for my Insights piece tomorrow on childhood obesity and pregnancy.
For anyone pregnant, planning on getting pregnant, knows someone who fits either of those categories, or just really likes fun applications of economics in the real world, I highly recommend this book. I found it an interesting and informative use of economic tools and reasoning to navigate the pregnancy guidebooks out there (don’t worry Mum, I was reading it for academic purposes only).
But then I came across this critique from The Daily Beast, and it has really irked me:
It turns out Oster isn’t relying on interviews with medical professionals or public-health experts. She doesn’t reach her conclusions after tons of conferences or meetings with scientists. She’s combed through and “debunked” the pregnancy…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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