The Spirit Level
Why Equality is Better for Everyone
$24.04
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2011
Summary
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 Swedes 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 bigge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241954294 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241954290 |
| Author: | Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Kate Pickett
Richard 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. 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. 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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