Inequality matters - preview
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argue that greater equality would increase the wellbeing of poor and rich alike
Now that so few people in rich countries lack basic necessities, some people – including many politicians – have assumed that inequality no longer matters In contrast, many Friends would share the intuition that inequality is socially corrosive Recently research has begun to identify the effects of inequality
Over the last couple of decades it has become possible to compare, at least in terms of income differences, how unequal different countries are In some rich countries the richest twenty per cent of the population may be eight or nine times as rich as the poorest twenty per cent In others they may be only four times as rich
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
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