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The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
A groundbreaking inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' happiness and well-being.
Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scien...more
Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scien...more
Paperback, 355 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by New Press, The
(first published 2004)
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Inequality within our societies makes everyone unhappier, and not only that, it puts us at higher risk for disease too! who knew?
Read it for school, I enjoyed it, but sometimes Wilkinson would be a little...repetitive. And sometimes he would say things that made me a little cross, but I'm glad I read it. It broadened my horizons.
Read it for school, I enjoyed it, but sometimes Wilkinson would be a little...repetitive. And sometimes he would say things that made me a little cross, but I'm glad I read it. It broadened my horizons.
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Richard G. Wilkinson (Richard Gerald Wilkinson; born 1943) is a British researcher in social inequalities in health and the social determinants of health. He is Professor Emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor at University College London.
He is best known for his 2009 book (with Kate Pickett) The Spirit Lev...more
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