Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard G. Wilkinson

Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality

Richard G. Wilkinson

268 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction economics health sociology informative medium-paced
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Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates....

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