The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. "This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking...In half a page "The Spirit Level"] tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel could."--"Sunday Times "(UK ) It is well established that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Now a groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, takes an important step past this idea. "The Spirit Level "shows that there is one common factor that links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Not wealth; not resources; not culture, climate, diet, or system of government. Furthermore, more-unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them--the well-off as well as the poor. The remarkable data assembled in "The Spirit Level "reveals striking differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem--ill-health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness--is more likely to occur in a less-equal society. This is why America, by most measures the richest country on earth, has per capita shorter average lifespan, more cases of mental illness, more obesity, and more of its citizens in prison than any other developed nation. Wilkinson and Pickett lay bare the contradiction between material success and social failure in today's world, but they do not simply provide a diagnosis of our woes. They offer readers a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society. "The Spirit Level "is pioneering in its research, powerful in its revelations, and inspiring in its conclusion: Armed with this new understanding of why communities prosper, we have the tools to revitalize our politics and help all our fellow citizens, from the bottom of the ladder to the top.
Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in 10 languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London. Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Her work, with Richard Wilkinson, on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade, by the New Statesman.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/09/economics_equality_and_finance_sector Spirit of the age Sep 1st 2010, 10:56 by Buttonwood INEQUALITY is a fascinating subject, with plenty of moral, economic and political implications. So it was remiss ...
评分这本书的中心议题:为什么平等的社会总是在人民福祉上做得更好?Richard Wilkinson 是经济历史和社会流行病学(social epidemiology)出身,诺丁汉大学医学院的荣休教授,Kate Pickett 是约克大学的流行病学教授。他们的背景,可以从这本书大量的对数字/趋势相关性的分析看出,在...
评分http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/09/economics_equality_and_finance_sector Spirit of the age Sep 1st 2010, 10:56 by Buttonwood INEQUALITY is a fascinating subject, with plenty of moral, economic and political implications. So it was remiss ...
评分http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/09/economics_equality_and_finance_sector Spirit of the age Sep 1st 2010, 10:56 by Buttonwood INEQUALITY is a fascinating subject, with plenty of moral, economic and political implications. So it was remiss ...
评分http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/09/economics_equality_and_finance_sector Spirit of the age Sep 1st 2010, 10:56 by Buttonwood INEQUALITY is a fascinating subject, with plenty of moral, economic and political implications. So it was remiss ...
《The Spirit Level》这本书,是一次对于我们所生活的世界的深度剖析。它就像一个显微镜,将那些隐藏在繁荣景象之下的社会裂痕,一一展现在我们眼前。我一直以为,经济发展水平越高,社会就应该越美好,人们的幸福感就应该越强,但这本书却用扎实的证据告诉我,事实并非如此。作者们严谨的逻辑和丰富的例证,让我不得不承认,在某些方面,社会经济越平等,人们的生活质量反而越高。这种反直觉的结论,一开始让我感到有些难以接受,但随着阅读的深入,我逐渐被说服了。这本书让我开始反思,我们一直以来追求的“发展模式”是否真的有道理。它没有直接提供“解决方案”,但它清晰地指出了问题的根源所在,这本身就具有巨大的价值。读完这本书,我感觉自己不再是那个对世界懵懂无知的旁观者,而是多了一份思考,多了一份对未来的责任感。
评分《The Spirit Level》这本书,用一种近乎史诗般的笔触,描绘了社会不平等的触角是如何渗透到我们生活的方方面面。它不像一些社会学著作那样,只关注宏观数据和理论模型,而是非常细致地将这种不平等的影响,具体化到个体身上,例如人们的健康状况、精神压力、犯罪率,甚至是我们对社会的信任度。读这本书的时候,我经常会感觉到一种莫名的压抑,那种对现实社会某些方面的无力感,在这本书里被清晰地表达出来。但是,这种压抑并非是绝望,反而是一种强烈的呼唤,呼唤我们去正视问题,去寻找解决方案。作者的叙事风格非常独特,他们并没有试图用煽情的语言来打动读者,而是用一种冷静、客观的分析,一点点地瓦解我们对社会现状的麻木。我印象最深刻的是关于“社会地位”和“物质财富”在不同社会中的作用差异,这让我重新思考了“成功”的定义。这本书的洞察力令人惊叹,它挑战了我们固有的观念,让我们不得不重新审视自己所处的社会环境,以及我们在这个环境中的位置。
评分老实说,《The Spirit Level》这本书刚开始读的时候,我以为会是一本比较枯燥的学术著作,但事实证明我错了。作者们用一种非常引人入胜的方式,将复杂的社会经济理论,转化成了生动易懂的故事和案例。他们就像一位经验丰富的侦探,在海量的数据和信息中抽丝剥茧,最终揭示出社会不平等与一系列负面社会问题之间的深刻联系。我尤其欣赏他们对不同国家和地区进行比较分析的部分,那些跨文化的对比,让这本书的论证更加有力,也更加具有普遍意义。读完之后,我感觉自己对“公平”和“正义”有了更深刻的理解。这本书不仅仅是在陈述一个社会现象,它更是在探讨如何构建一个更健康、更和谐的社会。它让我意识到,追求经济增长固然重要,但如果忽视了社会公平,那么我们付出的代价可能会远远超出预期。这本书无疑是一部具有里程碑意义的作品,它为我们理解当今社会面临的挑战,提供了一个全新的视角。
评分天呐,终于读完《The Spirit Level》了!这本书就像一股清流,席卷了我对“进步”和“成功”的既有认知。它没有高高在上地给你灌输大道理,而是用一种非常接地气的方式,剥开了社会经济差距背后那层令人不安的真相。读这本书的时候,我时不时会停下来,陷入沉思,回想自己曾经经历过的一些事,那些微小的、不被注意到的社会现象,在这本书里被放大,被联系,最终构成了一幅令人警醒的图景。作者的论证非常扎实,他们引用了大量的研究数据,但却丝毫没有枯燥的感觉,反而让整个论述过程充满了说服力。我特别喜欢他们分析不同国家之间社会福利和经济平等度的对比,那些数字不仅仅是冰冷的统计,它们背后是无数个家庭的命运,是孩子们能否获得公平的教育,是老年人能否安享晚年。读完之后,我感觉自己对世界的理解又深了一个层次,那些曾经觉得理所当然的事情,现在都变得值得怀疑和探讨。这本书不是一本让你轻松看完然后随手丢掉的书,它会一直在你脑海里萦绕,促使你去思考,去行动。
评分对于《The Spirit Level》这本书,我只能用“震撼”来形容我的感受。它以一种前所未有的深度,揭示了社会不平等的破坏性力量。我之前从未想过,贫富差距如此剧烈地影响着一个社会的方方面面,从最基本的健康指标,到人们的心理状态,再到社会凝聚力。作者们并没有回避那些令人不快的事实,而是用一种不带感情色彩的笔调,冷静地呈现了这些数据和分析。这反而让这本书的力量更加强大。它不是一本让你读完之后就能立刻找到答案的书,它更像是一个长久的警示,一个不断提醒我们去反思社会结构和价值取向的催化剂。我特别喜欢他们探讨“信任”在不同社会中的作用,这让我意识到,经济上的平等不仅仅是物质上的分配,更是对社会信任度的根本性影响。这本书的阅读体验是非常独特的,它会让你对“社会”这个概念产生全新的认识,也会让你开始思考,我们应该如何去构建一个更健康、更公平的未来。
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