Book
The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
Publication Information
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xv, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Notes
Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, 2009.
Contents
- Material success, social failure. The end of an era
- Poverty or inequality?
- How inequality gets under the skin
- The costs of inequality. Community life and social relations
- Mental health and drug use
- Physical health and life expectancy
- Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists
- Educational performance
- Teenage births: recycling deprivation
- Violence: gaining respect
- Imprisonment and punishment
- Social mobility: unequal opportunities
- A better society. Dysfunctional societies
- Our social inheritance
- Equality and sustainability
- Building the future.