The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

By Steven H. Woolf. 2010

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Social Determinants of Health in the United States: Addressing Major Health Inequality Trends for the Nation, 1935-2016 (2017, background): “This gap is particularly true for infant mortality and life expectancy, where the US lags behind other industrialized countries as the pace of improvements in these indicators has not kept up with that for other nations.[24,37,38]”
A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, background): “…social and organizational), and does not account for the circulation of income among individuals, which can enhance personal and social wellbeing (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009); It counts every expenditure as positive and does not discriminate welfare-enhancing activity from welfare-reducing…”
Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “Consequently, more inequality in societies tends to increase the importance of social status, leading to a decrease in social cohesion and sense of community (Pickett and Wilkinson, 2011).”
Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress (2013, background): “GDP also does not account for the distribution of income among individuals, which has a considerable effect on individual and social well-being (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009).”
Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016, background): “with personal consumption expenditures, a measure of all spending by individuals and a major component of GDP, weighting it by income distribution to recognize the impacts of inequality on societal welfare (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009), andmakingmore than 20 additions and subtractions to account for”
Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth (2013, background): “Dropout rates are much higher in the more unequal states (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2010).”
Does satisfactory neighbourhood environment lead to a satisfying life? An investigation of the association between neighbourhood environment and life satisfaction in Beijing (2017, neutral): “…concerns the relative income hypothesis or the social comparison hypothesis which indicates that people tend to rate their satisfaction levels after comparing their current income with that in the past or that of others, corresponding to the multiple discrepancy theory (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009).”
From Psychological Science to the Psychological Humanities: Building a General Theory of Subjectivity (2017, background): “Although it is well established that increasing income inequality, as a result of globalization, impacts mental health (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009)—that is, access to money or debt has psychological consequences—psychologists have had a hard time articulating structural power imbalances as a…”
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical context (2012, neutral): “…all the more troubling is the fact that high consumption lifestyles, so often held up as the peak of human development, are in many cases engendering an unexpected discontent or malaise among those who live them (Lane, 2000; Myers, 2000; Putnam, 2000; McCormack, 2001; Pickett and Wilkinson, 2010).”