Robert H. Frank is the author of The Sunday Times bestseller The Economic Naturalist and The Return of The Economic Naturalist. He is the Henrietta Louis Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and is a regular economics columnist in The New York Times. Philip Cook is the ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, and author of Paying the Tab (Princeton University Press, 2007).
[Frank] makes an excellent populariser, with a lucid writing style and a willingness not to take himself too seriously * Guardian * Frank and Cook break new ground by linking the win-at-all-costs mentality to economic and cultural problems * Business Week * Should be at the forefront of everyone's attention -- Lester C Thurow * Los Angeles Times * A major contribution to the debate about the causes and consequences of inequality in America * The New York Times Book Review * One of the ten best business books of the year * Business Week *