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Does income inequality cause health and social problems?
Does income inequality cause health and social problems? Karen RowlingsonSeptember 2011 This report provides an independent review of the evidence about the impact of grew dramatically in the 1980s and has remained at a high level ever since. But should high levels of inequality concern us? This report provides an independent review of the research, paying particular attention to the evidence and arguments put forward in The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, in which it was argued strongly that we should indeed be concerned about income inequality . This report reviews the points made in various critiques that have appeared since The Spirit Level was first published in 2009, alongside the evidence and debate in the broader peer-reviewed literature.
2009a) but the main focus of the high-profile critiques of the book has been the analysis of the correlation between income inequality and health and social problems (Saunders, 2010; Snowdon, 2010). Before dealing directly with some of these, and other, criticisms of the analysis in the book, this chapter outlines
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