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Praise for Robert Frank’s Falling Behind

“I’ve been a skeptic. Bob Frank is persistent. He’s beginning to convince me.”

Thomas C. Schelling, author of The Strategy of Conflict and 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics

“In this century, distributional concerns will top the policy agenda. This masterful essay will change how you think about them.”

Paul Romer, Stanford University

“The arguments here are powerful and multidisciplinary. The crux is explaining how rising economic inequality causes harm to the middle class. . . . This is a gem of a book.”

Lee S. Friedman, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

“In this lively, provocative book filled with memorable new examples, Bob Frank goes beyond his previous work (Luxury Fever, Winner-Take-All Society, and Choosing the Right Pond) and clarifies that ‘falling behind’ is a consequence not of envy but rather of the simple fact that a person’s evaluation of his own possessions ‘depends always and everywhere on context’—an unconscious comparison with his neighbor’s possessions or with his own previous possessions.”

Laurence Seidman, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics, University of Delaware