Kate Pickett

• Ser pobre en una sociedad rica es casi garantía de infelicidad. Pero, ¿es feliz el rico que vive en una sociedad rica? La respuesta: la desigualdad es la causa fundamental de los males de todas las

A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.Just what these times are crying out for KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut EconomicsPoverty and inequality are at the heart of all our problems. Kate Picketts book shows how tackling them must be at the heart of our solutions tooZACK POLANSKIAn uplifting vision for solving inequality that benefits everyoneANDY BURNHAM How do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need? How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?Kate Pickett is a world-leading social scientist whose lifes work has been to identify the underlying causes of societys most important problems and the long-term solutions that will actually work.In this inspiring book, she shows that to make a good society in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. This means confronting once and for all the fundamental problems of poverty and inequality that lie behind all the others.Drawing on over three decades of evidence, and an array of proven solutions and real-world success stories from across the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, galvanising, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.

Pourquoi nos sociétés développées engendrent-elles autant de mal-être ? Mal-être personnel, mais aussi collectif. Et si l’augmentation des richesses n’était pas le gage d’une prospérité sociale et in

Pourquoi nos sociétés développées engendrent-elles autant de mal-être ? Mal-être personnel, mais aussi collectif. Et si l’augmentation des richesses n’était pas le gage d’une prospérité sociale et in

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 Greeks? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: - How almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, 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 futureUrgent, 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.

Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality.In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debateby showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everythingfrom education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually,how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that materialinequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to defi ne and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount.Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts ofinequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innatelycompetitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of natural differences in individual ability. This book sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.