Robert H. Frank is the author of Choosing the Right Pond, Passions Within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke), Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, Falling Behind, The Economic Naturalist, The Darwin Economy, and Success and Luck, and Under the Influence.
The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, received the Critics Choice Award, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the Ten Best Books of 1995.
R. H. Frank is the 2004 co-recipient of the Leontief Award for pushing the boundaries of economic thinking. He was awarded the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2018, and the Apple Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
Robert H. Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. For more than a decade, Professor Frank’s Economic View column appeared monthly in The New York Times.
Professor Frank also lectured in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s.