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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 in each case: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: How almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, 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 future. --Cover

subjects: Equality,  Social problems,  Income distribution,  Social mobility,  Quality of life,  Social policy,  Public Policy,  Soziale Gerechtigkeit,  Verteilungsgerechtigkeit,  Einkommensdisparität,  Gleichheit,  Einkommensverteilung,  Soziale Mobilität,  Gesundheit,  Soziale Ungleichheit,  Health Status Indicators,  Socioeconomic Factors,  Société,  Répartition du revenu,  Qualité de la vie,  Inégalités sociales,  Relations humaines,  Aspects socio-économiques,  Soziale Probleme,  Lebensqualität,  Nachhaltigkeit,  Social Conditions,  Economics,  Psychology,  Income,  Contemporary Issues,  Social conditions--economics,  Quality of life--psychology,  Hm821 .w535 2011,  Hm 821 w687s 2010