The broken ladder how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die
"A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. I...
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Viking
[2017]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Lunch lady economics: why feeling poor hurts like being poor
- Relatively easy: why we can't stop comparing ourselves to others
- Poor logic: inequality has a logic of its own
- The right, the left, and the ladder: how inequality divides our politics
- Long lives and tall tombstones: inequality is a matter of life and death
- God, conspiracies, and the language of the angels: why people believe what they need to believe
- Inequality in black and white: the dangerous dance of racial and economic inequality
- The corporate ladder: why fair pay signals fair play
- The art of living vertically: flatter ladders, comparing with care, and the things that matter most