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The equality effect : improving life for everyone / Danny Dorling ; illustrations by Ella Furness ; foreword by Owen Jones.

Title
The equality effect : improving life for everyone / Danny Dorling ; illustrations by Ella Furness ; foreword by Owen Jones.
Author
Dorling, Daniel
Publication
Oxford : New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Furness, Ella
  • Jones, Owen (Owen Peter), 1984-
Description
280 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society all over the world. For the past four decades, many countries, including the US and the UK, have chosen the path to greater inequality on the assumption that there is no alternative. Yet even under globalization, other nations continue to take a different road. The time will come when The Equality Effect will be as readily accepted as women voting or former colonies gaining independence--and it will come very soon. From one of the world's top social scientists comes a compelling argument for public policy to prioritize equality, fully-evidenced with statistics and sprinkled with black and white illustrations. Most importantly, he demonstrates where greater equality is currently to be found, and how we can set The Equality Effect in motion everywhere.--
Subject
  • Equality
  • Income distribution
  • Social mobility
  • Quality of life
  • Social Mobility
  • Quality of Life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Equality effect -- When we were more equal -- Why children need greater equality -- Equality and the enviroment -- Population, housing and migration -- Where equality can be found -- Firing up the equality effect.
ISBN
  • 1780263902
  • 9781780263908
  • 9781780263915 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
988560903
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library