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This feels like a sequel to "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Instead of a focus on the US and international comparisons of inequality and it's consequent social ills this book takes a more historical and theoretical approach. A good companion piece to Wilkinson and Pickett's work, and worth a reread or two.
Make no mistake, equality means Dorling should have access to the same comfort as Bill Gates , not that he should be paid as the much as the new guy at McDonald's, or that the McDonald's employee live in Dorling's home.
305 D711 2012
Fantastic little book. The data-driven approach is a good one, but more emphasis could have been paid to ideology, the deeply entrenched beliefs about the deserving and the undeserving, trickle down economics, etc. Socialism is presented as one more extreme case and, historically speaking, the Soviet experiment was hardly a blueprint for equality. More recent examples of socialism in Latin America point to a direction that is encouraging. But the movement needs to be identified and in Latin Amer...
A great little book to introduce why we should be so concerned about growing inequality. Not so much about how to go about changing this, rather more a rally cry at the end to speak out.
