"The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
to hear the BookTV discussion from March 21, 2010, click on
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What Makes the Healthiest and Happiest Societies? Hint: It's Not Wealth
Interview with epidemologist Richard Wilkinson explains why it's equality, not high income, that makes a society thrive.
http://www.alternet.org/health/145955/what_makes_the_healthiest_and_happiest_societies_hint:_it's_not_wealth/
Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need It, Too by Brooke Jarvis in Yes Magazine Mar 4, 2010
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/want-the-good-life-your-neighbors-need-it-too/?searchterm=wilkinson
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