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RICHARD WILKINSON AND KATE PICKETT The Spirit Level Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger BLOOMSBURY PRESS New York Berlin London Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Note on Graphs PART ONE Material Success, Social Failure
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Kate Pickett are British, their research explores the United States in depth, and their work is an important contribution to the debate our country needs. The Spirit Level looks at the negative social effects of wide inequality—among them, more physical and mental illness not only among those at the lower ranks, but
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. But the market is a creation of public policies. And public policies, as the authors make clear, can reorganize the market to reverse these trends. The Spirit Level shows why the effort to do so is a vital one for the health of our society. Berkeley, California July 2009 Preface People usually exaggerate
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Bloomsbury Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Published by Bloomsbury Press, New York LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Wilkinson, Richard G. The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger / Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.—1st American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60819
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the Middle Class,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18559 (November 2012), table 2, 58. 2. See especially Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 49 ff. 3. US Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data
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and subjective well-being, MIT Press, 165–83; Richard Layard, 2005, Happiness: Lessons from a new science, Penguin; and Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2009, The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger, Bloomsbury. CHAPTER ONE: THE WELLBEING OF THE WORLD 1. For a related calculation, see James Vaupel and John M
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other hand, it tends to disappear for high incomes. Thus, in one society 14 A similar hypothesis is proposed in Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone (New York: Penguin Books, 2009). Globalization and Costly Inequality141 where rich people are richer and poor people poorer
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crossbar. Not as compact as my spirit level, perhaps, but obviously just as serviceable since A-levels continued to be used until the mid-1800s. The spirit level, with its sealed tube containing an air bubble floating in alcohol, was invented in the mid-1600s. It was first exclusively a surveying instrument—it
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