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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard G Wilkinson; Kate Pickett |
ISBN: | 9780141975399 0141975393 |
OCLC Number: | 1091644373 |
Notes: | Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2018. |
Description: | xxv, 324 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm |
Contents: | This is not a "self-help" book -- Self-doubt -- Delusions of grandeur -- False remedies -- The human condition -- The misconception of meritocracy -- Class acts -- A sustainable future? -- A better world. |
Responsibility: | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. |
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It holds the reader's attention by elaborating a phenomenon most will already have observed, and by providing an explanation for the dysfunction they see around them, from the brazen disregard for rules among many corporate and political leaders to the nihilism of drug addicts and school-shooters * Economist * The question of inequality is likely to play a bigger role in the next election than it has for more than a generation. It would be better for all of us if that debate was informed by robust statistical analysis rather than the emotive politics of envy. Any politician wishing to do so would be wise to read Wilkinson and Pickett's books. -- Andrew Anthony * Observer * Read more...

