The Spirit Level New Edition - Why Equality Is Better For Everyone
By Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett'sand The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyoneand is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:How almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it isThat societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-offHow we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer futureUrgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting,and The Spirit Leveland has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.'A big idea, big enough to change political thinking' -and Guardian'A remarkable new book ... the implications are profound' - Will Hutton,and Observer'The evidence is hard to dispute' -and EconomistRichard Wilkinsonand studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.Kate Pickettand is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. Her work with Richard Wilkinson onand The Spirit Leveland was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by theand New Statesman.