The spirit level why greater equality makes societies stronger
This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. The authors also outline a new political outlook in which a shift from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable soci...
| Main Author: | Wilkinson, Richard G. |
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| Other Authors: | Pickett, Kate. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | Pbk ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.