Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class

by Frank, Robert H.

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Full title :Falling Behind : How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class.

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Publication Date:July 2007.

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Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:July 2007.

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Description:1 online resource (168 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780520251885, 0520251881
oclc:on1148097814
Dewey Decimal:305.5/50973

Introduction -- Recent changes in income and wealth inequality -- Happiness and income -- Envy or context? -- Tangible costs of having low rank -- Whence positional concerns? -- Identifying positional consumption categories -- How can middle-class families afford to keep up? -- Smart for one, dumb for all -- Looking ahead -- Lessons for public policy -- Concluding remarks.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Condit… BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics Classes moyennes -- Conditions économiq… Consumption (Economics) Consumption (Economics) -- United States Equality Equality -- Economic aspects Equality -- Economic aspects -- United … Income distribution Income distribution -- United States Middle class -- Economic conditions Middle class -- Economic conditions. --… Middle class -- United States Revenu -- Répartition -- États-Unis SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology United States United States -- Economic conditions