Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett
The Spirit Level (2009) has been on my list for so long that it got relegated to unread. I didn’t want to repeat that mistake with The Inner Level, so I bought it as soon as it came up on my radar. 8 years after it was published, but hey! The authors provide a quick get-to-speed about the former whose core idea was that people in societies with bigger income gaps are more likely to suffer from a wide range of health and social problems. Not just the poor, mind you, but a vast majority of the population.
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