The private sector is first of all much larger than the public sector. The waste we see in that sector does not result from the fact that people spen…

- Robert H. Frank

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

- Robert H. Frank

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth …

- Robert H. Frank

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

- Robert H. Frank

All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its go…

- Robert H. Frank

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that …

- Robert H. Frank

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

- Robert H. Frank

No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three ti…

- Robert H. Frank

We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough…

- Robert H. Frank