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The Equality Effect: Improving Life for Everyone
Danny Dorling
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Description for The Equality Effect: Improving Life for Everyone
Paperback. Greater economic equality is beneficial to all people in all societies, both for the rich, the poor and the rest. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSC; KCP; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society all over the world.For the past four decades, many countries, including the US and the UK, have chosen the path to greater inequality on the assumption that there is no alternative. Yet even under globalization, other nations continue to take a different road. The time will come when The Equality Effect will be as readily ... Read more
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society all over the world.For the past four decades, many countries, including the US and the UK, have chosen the path to greater inequality on the assumption that there is no alternative. Yet even under globalization, other nations continue to take a different road. The time will come when The Equality Effect will be as readily ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780263908
SKU
V9781780263908
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Ref
99-15
About Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling: Danny Dorling is a social geographer and is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. He has written extensively about the widening gap between rich and poor and his work regularly appears in the media. He is author The No-nonsense Guide to Equality; ... Read more
Reviews for The Equality Effect: Improving Life for Everyone
Here is a book which details - with irrefutable evidence - both the damage caused by inequality, and the benefits we all derive from living in more equal societies. We should all learn from it - and, above all else, act on it. -Owen Jones; The Equality Effect: Improving Life for Everyone, Danny Dorling delivers evidence that more ... Read more