Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Robert H. Frank

Born: January 2, 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Robert Harris Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Known for:
- Microeconomics and behavior (1991)
- Principles of Economics (1982)
- The Winner-Take-All Society (1995)
- Passions within reason (1988)