The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone By Kate Pickett,
Richard Wilkinson (Paperback, 2010)

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Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential & 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 is That societies with a bigger gap between rich & poor are bad for everyone in them
- including the well-off How we can find positive solutions & move towards a happier fairer future Urgent provocative & genuinely uplifting The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves & our communities & 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' Economist Richard Wilkinson studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology & is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School & Honorary Professor at University College London Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York & a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist Her work with Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement & their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman