New Book
For readers of books like The Wisdom of Crowds, Stumbling on Happiness, and Freakonomics, books that combine big ideas about our contemporary world with entertaining, journalistic, story-based writing. An entertaining, colorful journey to the new country of RICHISTAN, where Robert Frank chronicles the perils and foibles of the newly rich, starting with the 430,000 households worth $10 million or more.
About the Author: Robert Frank is a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, where he writes a weekly column and daily blog called The Wealth Report. He has been with the Journal for 13 years, with postings in Atlanta, London, Singapore, and New York. He was part of a team of reporters that won an Overseas Press Club award in 1998 for its coverage of developing economies. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
