If we’re serious about promoting well-being for all, inequality is the place to start Spencer Platt/Getty
SINCE we published The Spirit Level two years ago, we’ve noticed a hunger for explanations of why rich societies seem to have so many social problems. The explanation we offer seems to link up with a widespread intuition that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive. The financial crash has also made people more willing to think critically about great inequality.
In a sense, our book is a theory of why so many health and social problems are more common at the bottom of…
