The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Wilkinson RichardPaperback
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Wilkinson RichardPaperback It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost…
Specifikacia The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Wilkinson RichardPaperback
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Wilkinson RichardPaperback
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further.
Almost every modern social problem-poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness-is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradictions between material success and Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor.The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states.