# How economic inequality harms societies

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Richard Wilkinson
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How economic inequality harms societies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies/752972ba68c8), 17 min (TED's player)