Robert H. Frank
Economist and Cornell professor
Robert H. Frank is an economist who teaches at Cornell University and has written on wealth inequality in the United States.
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American Born 1945
About Robert H. Frank
Robert Harris Frank was born in 1945 and earned his doctorate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. He has taught at Cornell University since that year and is a professor of economics there, linked to the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His published work has covered price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing and how long unemployment lasts, along with rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behavior. He has also written on wealth inequality in the United States, and he contributes to the Economic View column in The New York Times. His books include The Economic Naturalist, The Winner-Take-All Society and Under the Influence. Success and Luck is also among his books.