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Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level

The most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson’s The Spirit Level not only changed the way we understand and view inequality, it inspired the creation of The Equality Trust and our work. 

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