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The rich/poor divide narrows

This is not a ‘Christian’ book. I nevertheless found it utterly fascinating. The authors are both British academics. Their argument, as I understand it, is simply this: in places where the difference in income between those receiving the most and those getting the least is small almost everyone is better off. In places where the difference is great almost everyone suffers.

John Steley

THE SPIRIT LEVEL
Why more equal societies almost always do better
By Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett. Penguin. 331 pages. £20.00
ISBN 978-1-846-14039-6