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100 1 $aWilkinson, Richard G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85304342
245 14 $aThe spirit level :$bwhy greater equality makes societies stronger /$cRichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2010.
300 $axv, 330 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tMaterial Success, Social Failure -- $g1.$tThe end of an era -- $g2.$tPoverty or inequality? -- $g3.$tHow inequality gets under the skin -- $gPt. 2.$tThe Costs of Inequality -- $g4.$tCommunity life and social relations -- $g5.$tMental health and drug use -- $g6.$tPhysical health and life expectancy -- $g7.$tObesity: wider income gaps, wider waists -- $g8.$tEducational performance -- $g9.$tTeenage births: recycling deprivation -- $g10.$tViolence: gaining respect -- $g11.$tImprisonment and punishment -- $g12.$tSocial mobility: unequal opportunities -- $gPt. 3.$tA Better Society -- $g13.$tDysfunctional societies -- $g14.$tOur social inheritance -- $g15.$tEquality and sustainability -- $g16.$tBuilding the future.
500 $aOriginally published in Great Britain in 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.
520 1 $a"It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This book, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. The Spirit Level shows that one common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Not wealth, not resources, not culture, not climate, diet, nor form of government. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them the rich and middle class as well as the poor." "The 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. 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. This is why America, by most measures the richest nation on Earth, has per capita shorter life spans, more mental illness, more obesity, and more of its people in prison than any other developed nation." "Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradiction between material success and social failure in the developed world, but they do not merely tell us what's wrong. They offer a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEquality.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044503
650 0 $aSocial mobility.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123976
650 0 $aQuality of life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109445
650 0 $aSocial policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123985
700 1 $aPickett, Kate.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008182457
852 00 $bbar$hHM821$i.W55 2009