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Robert Frank
Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management
Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy

Johnson Graduate School of Management & Department of Economics

EXPERTISE
Applied economics

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Causes and consequences of earnings inequality

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(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.


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