{"product_id":"9780141975399-the-inner-level","title":"The Inner Level","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing increasing  levels of mental illness and distress? Highly readable and  authoritative, \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Level\u003c\/i\u003e shows clearly how social anxieties and the problems they lead to rise steadily in richer, more unequal societies' Clare Short, \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate\u003cbr\u003eby showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything\u003cbr\u003efrom education to life expectancy. \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Level \u003c\/i\u003enow explains how inequality affects us individually,\u003cbr\u003ehow it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material\u003cbr\u003einequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to defi ne and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of\u003cbr\u003einequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innately\u003cbr\u003ecompetitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of 'natural' differences in individual ability. This book sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942931837025,"sku":"9780141975399","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32374504.jpg?v=1737203295","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141975399-the-inner-level","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}