“robert franks”

Wall Street Journal reporter explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds. As new industries cater to their needs (butler schools, self-help groups for people worth over $10), take a glimpse behind the gli... More

Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, "Richistan" looks beyond the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in t... More

Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The answer is simple: economics. For years, economist Robert Frank has been encouraging h... More

The Economic Naturalist is back with a whole batch of intriguing new questions and answers, drawn from his New York Times columns, that reveal how we really behave when confronted with economic choices. Do tax cuts for business owners really stimulate employment? Why shouldn’t we just leave everyt... More

Table of contents Part 1 Introduction 1. Thinking Like an Economist 2. Comparative Advantage: The Basis for Exchange 3. Supply and Demand: An Introduction Part 2 Competition and the Invisible Hand 4. Elasticity 5. Demand: The Benefit Side of the Market 6. Perfectly Competit... More

In "Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies," Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in comp... More