Falling Behind Falling Behind
Wildavsky Forum Series

Falling Behind

How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class

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Publisher Description

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. 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. 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.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2013
September 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
12
MB
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