Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is
Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on
society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the
controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in
the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage
pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the
Australians? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based
on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: How almost
everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to
illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal
it isThat societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for
everyone in them - including the well-off How we can find positive
solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future Urgent, provocative
and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as
providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and
could change the way you see the world.
'A big idea, big
enough to change political thinking' - Guardian 'A remarkable new book
... the implications are profound' - Will Hutton, Observer 'The
evidence is hard to dispute' - EconomistRichard Wilkinson studied
economic history at the London School of Economics before training in
epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham
Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.
Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York
and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist.
The Spirit Level : Why Equality is Better for Everyone - Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
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