The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. "This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking...In half a page "The Spirit Level"] tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel could."--"S...
The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. "This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking...In half a page "The Spirit Level"] tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel could."--"Sunday Times "(UK ) It is well established that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Now a groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, takes an important step past this idea. "The Spirit Level "shows that there is one common factor that links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Not wealth; not resources; not culture, climate, diet, or system of government. Furthermore, more-unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them--the well-off as well as the poor. The remarkable data assembled in "The Spirit Level "reveals striking differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem--ill-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 country on earth, has per capita shorter average lifespan, more cases of mental illness, more obesity, and more of its citizens in prison than any other developed nation. Wilkinson and Pickett lay bare the contradiction between material success and social failure in today's world, but they do not simply provide a diagnosis of our woes. They offer readers a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society. "The Spirit Level "is pioneering in its research, powerful in its revelations, and inspiring in its conclusion: Armed with this new understanding of why communities prosper, we have the tools to revitalize our politics and help all our fellow citizens, from the bottom of the ladder to the top.
Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We ...Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We tend to see social position as a more important feature of a person’s identity.(展开)
Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We ...Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We tend to see social position as a more important feature of a person’s identity.(展开)
根据一般人的直觉，平等是一件好事情。这么想很可能是对的，而且现在已经得到了充分的理论支撑：两位英国研究员理查德·威尔金森和凯特·皮克特发表了一份广受瞩目的社会学报告《公平之怒》（Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone），在广泛采集数据的基础上做了...
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/09/economics_equality_and_finance_sector Spirit of the age Sep 1st 2010, 10:56 by Buttonwood INEQUALITY is a fascinating subject, with plenty of moral, economic and political implications. So it was remiss ...
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What does the book talk about? Method: they use the information to create a series of scatter-graphs whose patterns look nearly identical, yet which document the prevalence of a vast range of social ills. On almost every index of quality of life, or wellnes...
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The novelty of this book is that income inequality, rather than poverty, is the root of social issues (e.g., health problems, educational attainment gap). Firstly, they outlined statistical evidence demonstrating the health and index of health and social pr...
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Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We ... Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We tend to see social position as a more important feature of a person’s identity. (展开)
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Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We ... Greater inequality heightens people’s social evaluation anxieties by increasing the salience of social status. Getting the measure of each other becomes more important as status differences widen. We tend to see social position as a more important feature of a person’s identity. (展开)