The path-breaking book, ‘The Spirit Level’ showed how gross inequalities damage the whole of society. Yet a year later we are entering a general election in which the main parties will ignore ...

Although first published under a Labour government in 2009, this book is still highly relevant ... they present evidence of a correlation between the level of inequality in each country (or ...

To be sure, that I’m even asking whether The Spirit Level fills the bill as the standard bearer in a new War on Inequality is testimony enough to the importance of this book. We are in the midst of a ...

So why isn't everybody Norway and Sweden? Got me beat. "The argument of this fascinating and deeply provoking book is easy to summarise: among rich countries, the more unequal ones do worse ...

Others hold that some X factor, perhaps as yet unidentified, explains The Spirit Level’s graphs. My own candidate, which I invite others to test, is cultural—the Sven versus Jack factor. If you look ...

The Spirit Level's message on income equality and its benefits is more relevant than ever in the Coalition era. David Beetham reviews the new edition of the book, in which the authors expand and ...

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