The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
- 作者: Richard Wilkinson,Kate Pickett
- 出版社/メーカー: Penguin
- 発売日: 2010/11/04
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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先週末にRichard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone*1を読了。
濠太剌利、オーストリア、白耳義、カナダ、丁抹、芬蘭、仏蘭西、独逸、希臘、アイルランド、イスラエル、伊太利、日本、和蘭、新西蘭、諾威、葡萄牙、新嘉坡、西班牙、瑞典、瑞西、英国、米国の比較。また、米国の50州間の比較。（先進国に限って言えば）富の格差の小さい社会は格差が大きい社会に比べて、平均寿命が高く、精神疾患が少なく、薬物依存者が少なく、肥満が少なく、刑務所人口が少なく、学業成績が高いこと、結局不平等な社会を維持するコストは平等な社会よりも高くつくことを示す。
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Graphs
Part One
Material Success, Social Failure
1 The end of an era
2 Poverty or inequality?
3 How inequality gets under the skin
Part Two The Costs of Inequality
4 Community life and social relations
5 Mental health and drug use
6 Physical health and life expectancy
7 Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists
8 Educational performance
9 Teenage births: recycling deprivation
10 Vilence: gaining respect
11 Imprisonment and punishment
12 Social mobility: unequal opportunities
Part Three A Better Society
13 Dysfunctional societies
14 Our social ineritance
15 Equality and sustainability
16 Building the future
Postscript- research Meets Politics
The Equality Trust
Appendix
Source of Data for the Indices of Health and Social Problems
Statistics
References
Index
