Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
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- Synopsis
- [Back Cover] 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. In a book exploring the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, 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. Drawing from up-to-date economic data and everyday examples, Frank compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 148 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520252523
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/12/07
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of California
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Murray
- Proofread By:
- jill o'connell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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