Robert Frank

Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. Twitter: @econnaturalist

Why Behavioral Economics Needs Behavioral Biology

Traditional models of rational choice typically ignore Darwin’s central insight—that life is graded on the curve.

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Being Rich Doesn’t Mean You’re More Hardworking: Economist Says Markets Amplify Luck

Why people with similar talents earn such dramatically different incomes

By Robert H. Frank Why do hardworking people with similar talents and training often earn such dramatically different incomes? And why, too, have these earnings gaps grown so much larger in recent decades? Almost no […]

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Why Libertarians Should Support Many Forms of Government Intervention

How to solve collective action problems

A response to Would Darwin be a Socialist or a Libertarian? by Robert Frank When economist Ulrich Witt asked whether I’d care to respond to a libertarian’s critique of The Darwin Economy, I accepted with trepidation. Earlier reviews from […]

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Sorry Adam Smith, the Father of Economics is Charles Darwin. Here’s Why

Darwin saw much more clearly the relationship between individual self-interest and the welfare of the group

By David Sloan Wilson and Robert Frank Cornell economist Robert Frank is highly respected within his profession and well known to the general public through his books such as The Winner Take All Society and […]

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