In The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Wilkinson investigates the influences of social inequality on other social issues by using objective research methods represented in the forms of statistical results and graphs, which help to testify to the fact that, at least within advanced countries, the level of happiness and health is higher in societies with a smaller class gap. Unlike the existing research that has argued that the most decisive condition of most social problems (e.g. the level of social credibility, violence, homicide, rate of violent crime) is the national income per capita, he asserts that the degree of social inequality most strongly influences these social issues. That is, economic inequality causes other social problems, which, in result, increases social expense. He discusses the extent to which social inequality damages a society based on sufficient resources.
Lecture
2018. 11. 01. 10.00-12.00
