Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and the co-director of the Paduano Seminar in business ethics at NYU’s Stern School of Business. His “Economic View” column appears monthly in The New York Times. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech, then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He holds an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics, both from the University of California at Berkeley. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and other leading professional journals.
Expertise
Current Research Interests
Causes and consequences of earnings inequality
Selected Publications & Presentations
- (With B. Bernanke) Principles of Economics. McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. The Free Press, 1999.
- (With P. Cook) The Winner-Take-All Society. The Free Press, 1995.
- Microeconomics and Behavior. McGraw-Hill, 1991.
- Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions. W.W. Norton, 1988.
- “If Homo Economicus Could Choose His Own Utility Function, Would He Want One With a Conscience?” American Economic Review, 1987.
- Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status. Oxford University Press, 1985.
- “The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods.” American Economic Review, 1985.
- “Are Workers Paid Their Marginal Products?” American Economic Review, 1984.
- “Why Women Earn Less.” American Economic Review, 1978.
