Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class Volume 4 Tapa blanda - 2013
de Robert Frank
Descripción de contraportada
"I've been a skeptic. Bob Frank is persistent. He's beginning to convince me."--Thomas C. Schelling, author of The Strategy of Conflict
"The arguments here are powerful and multidisciplinary. The crux is explaining how rising economic inequality causes harm to the middle class. It also offers a policy reform--a progressive consumption tax--that serves to mitigate this harm. This is a gem of a book."--Lee S. Friedman, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
"In this lively provocative book filled with memorable new examples, Bob Frank goes beyond his previous work (Luxury Fever, Winner-Take-All Society, and Choosing the Right Pond) and clarifies that 'falling behind' is a consequence not of envy but rather of the simple fact that a person's evaluation of his own possessions 'depends always and everywhere on context'--an unconscious comparison with his neighbor's possessions or with his own previous possessions. His illuminating interchange with prominent discussants is a unique contribution of this book."--Laurence Seidman, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics, University of Delaware
"You may think that you understand what's in Bob Frank's earlier books, Choosing the Right Pond and Luxury Fever. You may even have read them. Nevertheless, if you pay even passing attention to the big economic policy questions, you should still read his latest contribution, Falling Behind. In this century, distributional concerns will top the policy agenda. This masterful essay will change how you think about them."--Paul Romer, Stanford University
"The most influential ideas often turn out to be those that seem obvious--once someone has had the wit to point them out. Robert Frank's ideas in Falling Behind meet this test. In this short, lucid set of essays he explains exactly how and why an unequal society leaves almost all its members worse-off, including most of those who objectively are doing 'better.' This is a very important application of economic logic to modern America's main domestic problem."--James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly
"Robert Frank escapes the fog of economics wars by illuminating the meaning of facts on the ground, not numerical theories in the sky. He sketches a theory of human economic nature and links it responsibly to the rickety choices of policy-makers who have no such theory or, worse, a truly faulty one."--Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University
"Robert Frank is the rare sort of economist whose work disconcerts economists and delights the rest of us. This is not mainly because he mischievously highlights the blind spots of his learned profession, but because his insights reveal fundamental, unnoticed, and yet very important truths about the society in which we live. As inequality has grown in America over the last three decades, Frank shows in this fluent and powerful little book, we have all been led by human nature to act in ways that are bad for virtually everyone. Frank's ideas should play an important and innovative role in the gathering debate about inequality in America."--Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University
Detalles
- Título Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class Volume 4
- Autor Robert Frank
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 176
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press
- Fecha de publicación 2013-09-14
- Features Bibliography, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520280526 / 0520280520
- Peso 0.45 libras (0.20 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 pulgadas (21.08 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Consumption (Economics)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006026248
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.550
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