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How economic inequality harms societies

Richard Wilkinson · TED

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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

The talk

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Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2011
Speaker
Richard Wilkinson
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Economics
Source
TED
Licence
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