Impact of Inequality How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

Name: Impact of Inequality How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
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ISBN: 9781595581211

ISBN-10: 1595581219

ISBN-13: 9781595581211

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard G. Wilkinson

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A groundbreaking inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' happiness and well-being. Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scientist, addresses the growing feelingso common in the United Statesthat modern societies, despite their material success, are social failures. The Impact of Inequality explains why inequality has such devastating effects on the quality and length of our lives. Wilkinson shows that inequality leads to stress, stress creates…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 355
Size: 5.02" wide x 7.95" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English