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Sat 02 Feb 2009The real root of the rot
SOCIOLOGY: T he Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do BetterRichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Allen Lane, 297pp. £20
THIS BOOK communicates a relevant and powerful message for our times. It suggests that we have sought to explain our “broken economy” on the behaviour of the rich and our “broken society” on the behaviour of the poor – and sets out to show that the truth is that both the broken society and the broken economy resulted from the growth in inequality .
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