Robert Frank

• Jonathan Zasloff
• August 23, 2010

The Environment as a Non-Positional Good

I just finished up Bob Frank’s terrific Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, and it contains an interesting (although somewhat depressing) implications concerning political support for the environment. For several years, Frank has been writing about the distinction between “positional” and “non-positional” goods  – a distinction that has spawned a large legal literature …

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