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The equality effect : improving life for everyone / Danny Dorling ; illustrations by Ella Furness ; foreword by Owen Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorling, Daniel, author.
- Jones, Owen (Owen Peter), 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equality.
- Income distribution.
- Social mobility.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 2017.
- 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.-- Provided by Publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 The Equality Effect 9
- Why equality is better for everyone - rich or poor.
- The uninspiring nonsense of inequality advocates
- Inequality worldwide
- Inequality and class
- Equality and poverty
- How some countries recently set out to become more unequal
- Rich and poor in China and India
- The international landscape
- The incremental, imperceptible changes that add up to progress
- 2 When we were more equal 51
- Why the history of human equality may surprise you
- Hunting, fighting and feasting
- Hierarchy, conquest, revolution
- Empire and religion
- Renaissance, mercantilism, enlightenment
- Independent shocks and new thinking in Europe
- Communism, colonialism, capitalism
- Social democracy versus corporate greed
- 3 Why children need greater equality 91
- Setting sail for Utopia
- Equality and child mortality
- Singapore: the national equivalent of a country mansion
- Extreme inequality and Apartheid
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Learned ignorance
- Sewers as cathedrals of the commons
- 4 Equality and the environment 121
- The rich and the planet
- The meat-eating problem
- Using too much water
- World leaders in waste
- Carbon dioxide and consumption
- Gasoline (petrol) consumption
- Wasting young lives
- Ecological footprints
- Air travel
- Crimes committed
- Education and environment
- Cycling and walking
- 5 Population, housing and migration 163
- Why contraception was revolutionary
- The right to equal treatment
- Why women's rights change everything
- Fertility and income inequality
- Health and equality
- Housing: building equality
- Rent regulations in more equal European countries
- It does not have to happen all at once
- 6 Where equality can be found 198
- Why the weekend gives us a taste for equality
- Cuba, Costa Rica and Kerala
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland
- Crime, gender equality and intervention
- Japan, Germany, despair and hope
- Oases in apparent deserts of inequality
- Americans are becoming less happy
- 7 Firing up the equality effect 228
- How the rich are hiding their wealth
- The one per cent have the most to lose
- Not all is well in Spain
- Basic income and living wages
- The political labels of old
- How to ensure that taxes are paid
- Redistribution and reparation
- What we dream of Harmony.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781780263908
- 1780263902
- OCLC:
- 988560903
- Publisher Number:
- 99972691277
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