Re: Robert Frank on increasing needs

[Michael Nuwer <nuwermj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

> September 28, 2006
> Economic Scene/New York TIMES
> The More We Make, the Better We Want
>
> By ROBERT H. FRANK
>
>
> [this guy should read Duesenberry]

Well it seems that he has:

The Mysterious Disappearance of James Duesenberry
Robert H. Frank. New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)).
New York, N.Y.: Jun 9, 2005. p. C.2

I'm sure that he has also read Harvey Leibenstein (and maybe even Veblen).

Economists like Frank appear to write one way when they are speaking to
other economists, but another way when they speak to the public. Hal
Varian does the same.