The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett
Large inequalities of income in a society have often been regarded as divisive and corrosive, and it is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This book demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor.
'A profoundly important book whose findings challenge the preference for growth over equality' Richard Layard
Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research 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. Kate Pickett is a Senior Lecturer 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 before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846140396 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846140390 |
| Title | The Spirit Level |
| Author | Kate Pickett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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