Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones tha…

- Bob Frank

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think …

- Bob Frank

Every group spends more when its income grows.

- Bob Frank

As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he al…

- Bob Frank

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it dir…

- Bob Frank

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

- Bob Frank

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and …

- Bob Frank

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

- Bob Frank

The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the…

- Bob Frank