The Spirit Level

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Paperback – April 26, Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it. This groundbreaking.
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• Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
• The Spirit Level
• The Spirit Level, Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Kate Pickett
• The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

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She is the co-founder of The Equality Trust. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. It's amazing how effectively this book peels back the veil that obscures hidden connections between seemingly unrelated modern social problems. In addition to providing me with a powerful new lens through which to view and think about solving a wide range of socio-political issues, I think The Spirit Level can just about serve as a type of self-help manual for avoiding some of the miserable hidden traps that inequality sets for us as individuals.

This book is seriously brilliant. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. What about Occupy Wall Street? There is something deeply wrong with the United States today. This book will help you see why. Its graphs and analyses make a deep case for the role of income inequality in causing all kinds of social problems. The authors blend quantitative sociology, philosophy, psychology, climate science, and other fields in a way that can sometimes seem scattered but generally works well.

I began reading this book while on a mission trip in Honduras. The Spirit Level is a very analytical approach to the topic of income inequality that is presented in an understandable format. The first couple chapters set the scene in describing the difference between wealth and inequality and how our success in getting things may actually be setting up cultural failure.

Some of the points are key insights to human behavior. Pages are very fascinating in describing the evolution of self-esteem. We now have a population of people who put off great self-esteem but not because they are accomplished or talented. Rather, these seemingly confident individuals continue to tell themselves they are right about everything and in turn are the most racist, violent and insensitive people in our culture. By this same token, many people today measure success only as in comparison to others. They must continually show to themselves and others that they have more than most of those around them.

This promotes a cultural values system that leads to great inequality. The majority of the book then goes on to detail all the negative social consequences that seem to come as a result of inequality. Countries are listed in accordance to their level of inequality.

Beyond that, the book lists each of the 50 American states according to the same criteria. Each chapter is then dedicated to a social problem everyone would agree is a cultural negative violence, mental illness, obesity, teenage pregnancies and poor education. Research results are given on each topic that show with amazing consistency how inequality whether in a country or state causes more of the negative social reality.

In , Tino Sanandaji and others wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal in which they said, "when we attempted to duplicate their findings with data from the U. However, even if we test our results using the OECD measures we find 28 of 29 relationships are still significant". He claimed that only one of the correlations in the book—that between infant mortality and income inequality—stood up to scrutiny, and that the rest were either false or ambiguous.

Noble concluded that the critical analysis of The Spirit Level offered by Peter Saunders 'cannot be taken seriously because it contains so many serious technical flaws'. Christopher Snowdon , an independent researcher and adjunct scholar at the Democracy Institute , [29] [30] published a book largely devoted to a critique of The Spirit Level , entitled, The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything.

Snowdon suggests that Wilkinson excludes certain countries from his data without justification, such as South Korea and the Czech Republic. The book includes homicide, but excludes suicide.

Prison population is included, but not the crime rate or crime survey data. Government foreign aid is included, but private charitable giving is not. Datasets are selected or rejected to support the thesis of the authors. Likely cultural confounding factors are not taken into account. Regression lines are drawn which are dependent on a very small number of outlying countries, but this is not explained in the text. Correlation is confused with causation throughout. It also argues that Wilkinson and Pickett falsely claim the existence of a scientific consensus when much of the literature disagrees with their findings.

Snowdon's book also asserts that some of Wilkinson's previous publications have been criticized on the basis that "the strength of the association Finally, in a reductio ad absurdum, the methods of TSL are used to show that the suicide rate is linked to the recycling rate. Wilkinson and Pickett released a response to questions from Snowdon [32] and responded to similar criticisms in the Wall Street Journal. In response to criticism of the book, Wilkinson and Pickett posted a note on the Equality Trust website which stated: In order to distinguish between well founded criticism and unsubstantiated claims made for political purposes, all future debate should take place in peer-reviewed publications.

In the Joseph Rowntree Foundation commissioned an independent review of the evidence about the impact of inequality, paying particular attention to the evidence and arguments put forward in The Spirit Level. It argued for further research on income inequality and discussion of the policy implications. Signatories promised to "actively support the case for policies designed to narrow the gap between rich and poor". The book has prompted a documentary, to be called The Divide. Think tank Class in association with The Equality Trust and My Fair London published a booklet drawing on The Spirit Level as well as presenting other essential information about income inequality.

In , Richard Wilkinson was appointed the chair of Islington's Fairness Commission to examine ways of reducing income inequality in the London borough. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Divide film. London, Allen Lane, 5 March The Enemy Between Us". London Review of Books. Archived from the original on 6 March