The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A conversation with Nina Bandelj
The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A conversation with Nina Bandelj
- June 25, 2026
- Nina Bandelj, sociology, in conversation with Public Books
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Caitlin Zaloom … talks with [UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of sociology] and author Nina Bandelj about her new book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting. “As an economic sociologist I was used to following the money and I saw that parents were going into more and more debt to raise children. To me that was quite surprising at first. Then I started to see how following the money leads us to where love goes, and how financial demands and emotional demands of parenting are tightly connected,” says Bandelj.
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