Falling Behind

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ISBN: 9780520280526

How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class

Robert Frank

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University of California Press
14 September 2013

Consumerism; Social classes; Population & demography; Macroeconomics

Series: Wildavsky Forum Series

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off ""expenditure cascades"" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.

By: Robert Frank
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Updated ed.
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780520280526
ISBN 10: 0520280520
Series: Wildavsky Forum Series
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 14 September 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert H. Frank is an economics professor in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, and a columnist for The New York Times. His books include The Winner Take-All Society (with Philip J. Cook), Luxury Fever, Choosing the Right Pond, Passions Within Reason, and Principles of Economics (with Ben S. Bernanke).

Reviews for Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class

""A compact example of a professional economist brilliantly deploying the tools of social science to illuminate the human condition.” * New York Times * ""This is an excellent book, written in an easy, understandable manner, alive with important examples of how our society spends its money and who are the winners and losers."" * Booklist * “Falling Behind is a short book in pages, but not in insight or wisdom. If you have not read a previous Frank book, now is the time.” * BeyondChron *