The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett
The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett
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The Spirit Level
Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

Author: Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor
have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level,
based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One
common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree
of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them—the rich and middle class as well as the poor.

The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level
exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first
world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social
problem—poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy,
mental illness—is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.

Renowned
researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the
contradictions between material success and social failure in the
developed world. But they do not merely tell us what's wrong. They offer
a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested
consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society.

About Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett is a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research career scientist. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell, and epidemiology at Berkeley, and spent four years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Kate is also a cofounder of the Equality Trust, an organization dedicated to campaigning for greater social equality.


Reviews

Introduction.... I have now read a detailed blog listing many arguments against this book, and whilst I still think The Spirit Level is a provocative and interesting read, I think it is best read in conjunction with the blog... [URL not allowed] (or see my comment, message 25 bel......more

Goodreads review by John

A pub quiz that asks you to name the world’s richest country seems too easy. The obvious answer – ‘the USA’ – is also the right one. It has an average income of more than $40,000 per head. But does this mean that the American dream has come true? What about if the question asked for the country with......more