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Bob Frank Discusses Government Programs And Cutting

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Robert Frank

  • Professor, Cornell University
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1944 (Age: 80 years old)
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Robert Frank is a Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School. In addition, Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times.

Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Frank's books include Choosing the Right Pond, Passions within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Luxury Fever, and What Price the Moral High Ground? The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books for 1995.

Frank holds a BS in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MA in statistics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.

You know the programs exist in the first place because somebody wanted them and so that makes government programs in general very difficult to cut. That's probably why we don't see big cuts and when you're forced to cut since it's a political decision the tendency is to cut the programs whose const...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 2 of 20 Bob Frank States One Must Understand Adam Smith Correctly
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Video 3 of 20 Bob Frank Explains Dynamics Of Group Versus Individual Welfare
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Video 4 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Impact of Collective Action on Individuals Versus Groups
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Video 5 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Markets and Market Power
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Video 6 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Dealing With Ideology In Economic Analysis
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Video 7 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Goal Of Deficit Reduction
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Video 8 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Lack Of Consistency Often Seen In Public Discussions
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Video 9 of 20 Bob Frank Explains Taxes To Raise Revenues Can Be Better Than Direct Regulation
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Video 10 of 20 Bob Frank Explains Positional Vs. Non-positional Consumption
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Video 11 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Benefits To Discouraging Positional Consumption
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Video 12 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Campaign Contributions
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Video 13 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Tax Increases, Economics And Job Creation
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Video 14 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Payscales And Progressive Consumption
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Video 15 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Government Programs And Cutting
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Video 16 of 20 Bob Frank Shares Example Of Rich To Poor Transfer Burden
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Video 17 of 20 Bob Frank States Success Often Requires An Element of Luck
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Video 18 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Improving Quality Of Public Discussions About Spending Cuts
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Video 19 of 20 Bob Frank Discusses Need For Regulation Due To Clash Between Individual and Group Incentives
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Video 20 of 20 Bob Frank States Belief That People Can Be Let Loose In The Markets As Long As They Don't Create Undue Harm to Others
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