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Robert Frank Discusses Measures Of Income Inequality

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Robert Frank

  • Professor, Cornell University
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1944 (Age: 80 years old)
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Biography

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.

What we found was that focusing on the 100 largest counties in the U.S., the ones in which income and equality grew the most were also the ones in which we saw the most palpable increases in concrete measures of financial distress. You don't see financial distress directly in the census data other ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 10 Robert Frank Discusses Income Inequality In Past Decades
  • Robert Frank - Interview - Income Inequality
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Video 2 of 10 Robert Frank Explains How Rich Benefit More
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Video 3 of 10 Robert Frank Discusses Impact of Rich Spending More
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Video 4 of 10 Robert Frank Discusses Measures Of Income Inequality
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Video 5 of 10 Robert Frank Explains Relationship Between Spending And Working
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Video 6 of 10 Robert Frank Explains Scandinavian Experience As Possible Model
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Video 7 of 10 Robert Frank Explains Spending And Savings Issues In Society
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Video 8 of 10 Robert Frank Recommends Collective Action To Solve Problems
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Video 9 of 10 Robert Frank Suggests Infrastructure Investments Should Be Done Sooner Rather Than Later
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Video 10 of 10 Robert Frank Explains Relationship Between Happiness And Income
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