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.
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.