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The Spirit Level

Why Equality is Better for Everyone

by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson ...

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 Greeks? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:- How almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by ... Read more

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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 Greeks? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:- How almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by
... Read more
Basic Income

The Policy That Changes Everything

by Matthew Johnson, Kate Pickett, Daniel Nettle, Howard Reed, Elliott Johnson, Ian Robson ...

Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies?This book dives into real-world examples, revealing how basic income reshapes lives. It explores the ripple effects of financial security—better health, stronger communities, more education, meaningful work, and engaged citizenship. By breaking the cycle of ... Read more

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Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies?This book dives into real-world examples, revealing how basic income reshapes lives. It explores the ripple effects of financial security—better health, stronger communities, more education, meaningful work, and engaged citizenship. By breaking the cycle of
... Read more
Act now

A vision for a better future and a new social contract

by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling ...

An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new ... Read more

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An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new
... Read more
The Inner Level

How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett ...

A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality ... Read more

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A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality
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The Inner Level

How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson ...

Narrated by Shridhar Solanki ...

Unabridged

11 hours 29 min

A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality ... Read more

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A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality
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Rethinking Britain

Policy Ideas for the Many

by Francis Green, Jane Lethbridge, Kate Pickett, Pauline Allen, Leslie Huckfield, Ian Gough, Howard Reed, Stewart Lansley, Beth Stratford, Johnna Montgomerie, Keith Ewing, Richard Murphy, Mary-Ann Stephenson ...

What if we had a government prepared to implement the policies that could radically change 21st-century Britain and improve people’s lives?Social and economic policies are rarely communicated clearly to the public, but it’s never been more important for citizens to understand and contribute to the debate around the country’s future.In everyday language, Rethinking Britain presents a range of ideas ... Read more

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What if we had a government prepared to implement the policies that could radically change 21st-century Britain and improve people’s lives?Social and economic policies are rarely communicated clearly to the public, but it’s never been more important for citizens to understand and contribute to the debate around the country’s future.In everyday language, Rethinking Britain presents a range of ideas
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The Tyranny of Merit

What's Become of the Common Good?

by Michael J. Sandel ...

Narrated by Michael J. Sandel ...

Unabridged

11 hours 17 min

**This program is read by the author.The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?**These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the ... Read more

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**This program is read by the author.The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?**These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the
... Read more

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Capitalism, Alone

The Future of the System That Rules the World

by Branko Milanovic ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only ... Read more

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We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only
... Read more

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How Much is Enough?

Money and the Good Life

by Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky ...

In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, they show ... Read more

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In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, they show
... Read more
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...

A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

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A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.
... Read more
Profit Over People

Neoliberalism and Global Order

by Noam Chomsky ...

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and ... Read more

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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and
... Read more
Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us ... Read more

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us
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