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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better is a book by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, published in 2009 by Allen Lane. The book is published in the US by Bloomsbury Press (December, 2009) with the new sub-title: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.
- Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett
- 2009
22 de dez. de 2009 · The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show how almost everything—-from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy-—is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is.
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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.
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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.
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3 de mai. de 2011 · This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a spirit level which we can hold up to compare different societies.
- Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett
- $11.99
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
4 de nov. de 2010 · Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade...
The Spirit Level is a 2009 book by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett that argues that more equal societies are better for health, wellbeing, and social problems. The book provides evidence and analysis of the effects of inequality on eleven indicators, such as physical health, mental health, drug abuse, education, and violence.
