Spirit Level Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

Name: Spirit Level Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
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ISBN: 9781608190362

ISBN-10: 1608190366

ISBN-13: 9781608190362

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Robert B. Reich

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The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one single factorthe gap between its richest and poorest memberscan determine the health and well-being of a society."This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking...In half a page [The Spirit Level] tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel could." Sunday Times(UK )It is well established that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Now a groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, takes an important step past this idea.The Spirit Levelshows that there is one common factor that links the healthiest and…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 12/22/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements


Note on Graphs



Material Success, Social Failure



The end of an era



Poverty or inequality?



How inequality gets under the skin



The Costs of Inequality



Community life and social relations



Mental health and drug use



Physical health and life expectancy



Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists



Educational performance



Teenage births: recycling deprivation



Violence: gaining respect



Imprisonment and punishment



Social mobility: unequal opportunities



A Better Society



Dysfunctional societies



Our social inheritance



Equality and sustainability



Building the future


Appendix


References


Index