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THE SPIRIT LEVEL - RICHARD WILKINSON KATE PICKE...

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 - now updated with a
new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. 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 Australians? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking
book  based on years of research  provides hard evidence to show: How almost everything - from
life expectancy to mental illness  violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a
society is  but how equal it isThat 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. 'A big idea  big enough to change political thinking' -
Guardian 'A remarkable new book ... the implications are profound' - Will Hutton  Observer 'The
evidence is hard to dispute' - EconomistRichard Wilkinson 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 Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National
Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. Her work with Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit
Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education
Supplement  and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New
Statesman.

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