The Moral Consers of Economic Growth

David Frum: I thought it was interesting in your book, The Moral Consers of Economic Growth, where you talk about the French Revolution. You write that especially when income's overall a stagnant, the opportunity for some to get ahead also often creates intense resentment of those who do. He says Tocqueville argued that far from reducing the dislike of the nobility by their inferiors, the practice of ennobling commoners had the opposite effect. Frum: It seems that the people who are doing the envying aren't so much the commoners to use the language of that would have been used in the time of the French Revolution,. But the nobles or the aspirants to