How economic inequality harms societies

Name: How economic inequality harms societies
Uploaded: 2011-10-24T15:05:36Z
Duration: 16 min 37 s
Description: 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.

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Richard Wilkinson |

TEDGlobal 2011

• July 2011

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.

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