Richard Wilkinson, well known British public health researcher and co-author of the recent influential book on economic inequality the Spirit Level (which has been previously mentioned on Resilience Science) gives a TED talk about his research on the social impact of inequality.
More on his research and his advocacy of social change is on the Equality Trust‘s website.
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It’s one of those things that many of us “feel” on the inside – that it just makes sense to have a more equal society. But to hear it explained and detailed graphically is amazing. Kinda scary seeing the USA’s position on many of those graphs though.