The Equality Effect is almost magical In more equal countries human beings are generally happier & healthier there is less crime more creativity & higher educational attainment Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics & society all over the world For the past four decades many countries including the US & the UK have chosen the path to greater inequality on the assumption that there is no alternative Yet even under globalization other nations continue to take a different road The time will come when The Equality Effect will be as readily accepted as women voting or former colonies gaining independence--and it will come very soon From one of the world's top social scientists comes a compelling argument for public policy to prioritize equality fully-evidenced with statistics & sprinkled with black & white illustrations Most importantly he demonstrates where greater equality is currently to be found & how we can set The Equality Effect in motion everywhere Danny Dorling is a social geographer & the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford His work concerns issues of housing health employment education & poverty He has written extensively about the widening gap between rich & poor & his work regularly appears in the media He is author The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality; The Atlas of the Real World; Unequal Health; Inequality & the 1 & Injustice Why social inequalities persist His views are often sought by policy makers