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The Inner Level - How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being (Hardcover)
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The Inner Level - How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being (Hardcover)
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Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in
Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch
to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse
in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study
demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality. In The
Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at
the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less-equal
societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from
education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how
inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think,
feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that
material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the
gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to defi
ne and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and
inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to
empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated
with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and
depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes
that status paramount. Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these
responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of inequality
on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception
that humans are innately competitive and self-interested. They
undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of
'natural' differences in individual ability. This book sheds new
light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today,
but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that
societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity
generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path
towards them.
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