Robert H. Frank

Robert Frank's work with Demos focuses on the impact of economic inequality on American society. He is author of the book, Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, published in July 2007 by UC Press.

He is a monthly contributor to the "Economic View" column in The New York Times. His eight previous books include Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Age of Excess and The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip J. Cook). His numerous articles have been published in both scholarly journals and leading opinion magazines.

He is the H.J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.