What Does Inequality Mean?

by Patrick Appel

Claude Fischer reviews The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger:

If inequality does, to some degree, cause social problems, why?Wilkinson and Pickett emphasize that the mechanism here is socialpsychological: inequality creates anxiety about status and feelings ofunfairness that eat at people. In the words of a chapter title,"inequality gets under the skin." Unlike the volume of studies on thecorrelation between inequality and health, there is little...