THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Equality is Better for Eve

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than the Japanese do? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer in each case: inequality.

This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:

How almost everything – from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy – is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is

That societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them – including the well-off

How we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future

Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.