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Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Robert Frank
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Description for Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Paperback. Explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America. This title 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. Series: Wildavsky Forum Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 b/w photographs, 19 line illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Wildavsky Forum Series
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280526
SKU
V9780520280526
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About Robert Frank
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 ... Read more
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."
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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 ... Read more