Spirit Level - Why Greater Equality Makes Societies - Wilkinson torrent

Release date: April 26, 2011
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and

suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years

of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest

and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. 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. 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 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.