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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better |  | Authors: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
Publisher: Penguin
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Pages: 368
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ISBN: 0141032367
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Publication Date: February 4, 2010
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 Brilliant book July 25, 2010
jacketpotato
Unquestionably one of the best political books I've ever read.
The book steers a difficult path: it manages to be meticulous, systematic and evidence driven; but doesn't become boring. It can become a little repetitive, but I think that is necessary: the ideological way in which some right-wingers have dismissed the book and ignored the decisive evidence it presents explains why that is necessary. The profoundness of the book's conclusions and the quality of both the evidence used and the way in which it is written mean it doesn't become boring. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Buy this book for all your friends, relatives and secret Santas July 13, 2010
D. Murphy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not going to reiterate the fine words which have already been used to describe this book in the preceding reviews, but sufficed to say I will be using this book as a mainstay for gift-buying for at least the next year. Everyone should have it, everyone should read it and everyone should write to the Member of Parliament and ask that they read it (I worked for one, if they get even 20 requests they will probably acquiesce!).
A final thought; there are too many armchair politics buffs out there. Take the positive message from this book that's being offered and do something with it. Join a civil society group; write a letter to a representative; talk to your friends about it. Take action. The vast majority of people who stand to lose out by lining the pockets of people who are already decadently wealthy. We must take into common ownership the vast private wealth which a few individuals hold, and from which we have been dispossessed.
Act now! Today belongs to you!
 Heavily flawed I'm afraid. June 30, 2010
Is Forrest
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
TSL has a follow up by Christopher Snowdon called The Spirit Level Delusion who comprehensively tears their work apart. Being an egalitarian I was genuinely upset at the reality, but the truth is what matters and I'm afraid all the arguments and nice graphs the authors use can be explained away with more thorough analysis or with more logical explanation.
If you see yourself agreeing with the premise of this book then read it and then straight after read the follow up. If you already see yourself as disagreeing with the notion that all the world's ills are simply due to inequality then save yourself the effort.
Inequality exacerbates most health & social problems June 21, 2010
Mr. P. G. Bond (Manchester, UK)
The authors present a wealth of statistical evidence that social inequality causes a wide range of health & social problems from homicide to obesity, mental illness to teenage pregnancy. They establish that, in developed countries, it is not absolute poverty but relative poverty which causes stress, psychological problems, crime, mutual distrust, class conflict etc. Politicians & policy-makers should read this book: they will discover how to reduce a range of different problems at once.
The Spirit Level June 19, 2010
Mr. R. L. Miller (Bromley.Kent..UK)
I have a slight suspicion that the authors had a theory and then found the facts to support it. Hardly a piece of objective research but if other investigations confirm their findings than this book will be the most significant publication of the 21 Century, Forcing us to rethink politics, economics and social structures. Certainly a `must read'
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