Influential economist Professor Robert Frank discusses The Darwin Economy. Frank argues that Charles Darwin’s understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Adam Smith’s, and that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics.
Bio
Robert Frank
Robert Frank is a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal and the author of Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich.
His column, The Wealth Report, is a daily blog focused on the lives and culture of the wealthy which appears every Friday in The Wall Street Journal.