Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for Falling Behind by Robert H. Frank - Available

Falling Behind

by Robert H. Frank
Audiobook
Listen to a sample Listen to a sample

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.

Expand title description text
Publisher: The University of California Press Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780520901971
  • File size: 87474 KB
  • Release date: July 12, 2007
  • Duration: 03:02:14

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780520901971
  • File size: 87616 KB
  • Release date: July 12, 2007
  • Duration: 03:02:13
  • Number of parts: 3
Loading
Loading

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Politics Sociology Nonfiction

Languages

English

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.

Expand title description text
Politics Sociology Nonfiction