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When epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett studied a range of high-income countries in their 2009 book, The Spirit Level, they discovered that it is national inequality, not national wealth, that most influences nations’ social welfare. More unequal countries, they found, tend to have more teenage pregnancy, mental illness, drug use, o
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The more unequal your society, the more prevalent all forms of mental illness are.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
two of the main ‘costs of inequality’ are ‘community life and social relations’ and ‘social mobility’ (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010).
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
providing a guaranteed basic income
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
The studies consistently show that greater equality improves wellbeing even for those in the top 25 percent.
Paul Gilding • The Great Disruption
New York Times • Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
greener neighbourhoods that offer a connection with nature might actually reduce the health gap between rich and poor and lead to a better, more equal society.
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Happiness too often seems to be less a reflection of our actual happiness and more a reflection of the ways in which we compare ourselves to others.