Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 148 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780520957435
,
0520957431
Series Statement:
Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy 4
Note:
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 pr
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Frank, Robert H. Falling behind Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Einkommensdisparität
;
Mittelstand
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
USA
;
Einkommensverteilung
;
Mittelstand
