The Spirit Level
Why Equality is Better for Everyone
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 2010
400 pages
978-0-14-192115-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 Greeks? 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
- 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
Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.
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
- 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
Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Integrated Cartoons
File size
7,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-192115-0 (9780141921150)
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Persons
Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, where she leads the Public Health & Society research group and is Director of the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change. She is also an academic co-director of Health Equity North, and a Fellow of the RSA, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Academy of Social Sciences.
Her landmark book, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, co-written with Richard Wilkinson, is an international bestseller and was chosen by the Guardian as one of the 100 most influential books of the century and by the New Statesman as a top ten book of the decade. It reshaped the debate on fairness, health and wellbeing. Their follow-up, The Inner Level, confirmed Kate's status as one of our most rigorous and compelling public thinkers. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Nature and New York Times; she has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches, including at the United Nations, the European Parliament and within UK government departments. She is the co-founder and patron of The Equality Trust. In 2023, Kate received an OBE for services to societal equality.
Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in ten languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.
Her landmark book, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, co-written with Richard Wilkinson, is an international bestseller and was chosen by the Guardian as one of the 100 most influential books of the century and by the New Statesman as a top ten book of the decade. It reshaped the debate on fairness, health and wellbeing. Their follow-up, The Inner Level, confirmed Kate's status as one of our most rigorous and compelling public thinkers. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Nature and New York Times; she has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches, including at the United Nations, the European Parliament and within UK government departments. She is the co-founder and patron of The Equality Trust. In 2023, Kate received an OBE for services to societal equality.
Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in ten languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.
