Recommendations from our site
“Spirit Level is an incredible book. It provides the evidence that inequality is bad for us all including the best-off. “ Read more...
Danny Dorling, Social Scientist
“This is a big ideas book, probably one of the biggest ideas for the 21st century.” Read more...
Jo Boyden, Development & Aid Workers (see also Economists)
“What I liked especially about The Spirit Level is the way it builds a case that inequality is phenomenally dysfunctional. Different states in the US, with different levels of equality, have different levels of teenage pregnancy or homicide. It all comes back to inequality, and the book shows that high levels of inequality are completely dysfunctional.” Read more...
The best books on Fairness and Inequality
Will Hutton, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Big Short
by Michael Lewis -
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S Landes -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner -
The Passions and the Interests
by Albert Hirschman -
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz -
Nudge
by Cass Sunstein & Richard Thaler
