The Spirit Level
Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
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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 in each case: 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 and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-off.
How we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future. --Cover
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Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
in English
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
May 03, 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Bloomsbury Publishing
paperback
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Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone
2011, Penguin Books, Limited
Paperback
in English
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Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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