The Spirit Level - by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 society is paramount.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.</b></p><p><b>"Get your hands on this book."-Bill Moyers</b></p><p>This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off <i>and </i>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. The differences revealed, even between rich market democracies, are striking. Almost every modern social and environmental problem-ill health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations-is more likely to occur in a less equal society. The book goes to the heart of the apparent contrast between material success and social failure in many modern national societies.</p><p><i>The Spirit Level </i>does not simply provide a diagnosis of our ills, but provides invaluable instruction in shifting the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more collaborative society. It shows a way out of the social and environmental problems which beset us, and opens up a major new approach to improving the real quality of life, not just for the poor but for everyone. It is, in its conclusion, an optimistic book, which should revitalize politics and provide a new way of thinking about how we organize human communities.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking." - <i>John Carey, Sunday Times (UK)</i></p><p>"Might be the most important book of the year." - <i>John Crace, Guardian</i></p><p>"Anyone who believes that what society is the result of what we do, rather than who we are, should read The Spirit Level because of its inarguable battery of evidence, and because its conclusion is simple: we do better when we're equal." - <i>Lynsey Hanley, Guardian</i></p><p>"The importance of the Spirit Level is that it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought." - <i>Roy Hattersley, The New Statesman</i></p><p>"An eloquent case that the income gap between a nation's richest and poorest is the most powerful indicator of a functioning and healthy society" - <i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Richard Wilkinson</b> has played a formative role in international research in inequalities in health and his work has been published in 10 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. </p><br><p><b>Kate Pickett</b> is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a former National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She is the co-founder of The Equality Trust. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.</p>
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