"The measure of the soul" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 
inequality is the mother of all the social ills. It is yet another re-proposal of an abstract ideal of egalitarian social matrix, but the result of decades of research and statistical comparisons between data collected in all major developed countries. Work that has been defined by the "Guardian" "The most important book of the year."
In a society there is more violence, more ignorance, more psychological problems, endless hours of work? There are more sick, more prisoners, more addicts, more unwed mothers, more obese? The source of this high level of unhappiness in all likelihood there will be a greater gap between rich and poor, greater inequality.
This is shown by facts and figures, the authors of this book is already a case in England. It is yet another re-proposal of an abstract ideal of egalitarian social matrix. Rather, it is the result of decades of research and statistical comparisons between data collected in all major developed countries.
It shows an unusual X-ray of the world in which we live. In fact, we used to think that economic growth has the automatic effect of making the nation healthier and more fulfilled. But this is no longer the case, because the ills generated by inequality involve everybody, not just the economically disadvantaged, but also those who are at the top of the social ladder.
The perspective opened by the book is clear: if you want to start a new cycle of growth that is focused on the quality of life, not just GDP, it must take immediate action to reduce the social gap grew enormously between the eighties and nineties. Should redistribute income and opportunities, taking inspiration from Scandinavia and Japan, good examples of egalitarianism, against the model of inequality offered by countries like the United States and England, not surprisingly center of gravity of a terrible economic and social crisis.
Kate Pickett is Senior Lecturer at the University of York and works at the National Institute for Health Research. He studied anthropology at Cambridge Nutritional Sciences at Cornell and Epidemiology, Berkeley, before working for four years as assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Richard Wilkinson has studied economic history at the London School of Economics, before specializing in Epidemiology. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London. His works have been translated into over ten languages.
"The measure of the soul" Why
inequalities make the company more unhappy
of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Translation: Adele Oliveri
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Like last year, Father Francesco de Rossi Gasperis, a Jesuit biblical scholar, professor at the Institute bibbliche of Rome and Jerusalem, he gave us an amazing evening. 
After an opening prayer and once we entered a small presentation on the substance of the speech. Father Francis speaks with calmness and tranquility. Sometimes you stop to think about stopping off in speech. Then resumes. We were all in silence trying to take everything we could. He sometimes wondered if there was clear or less what he said. It was very clear. Thanks for this valuable meeting. 
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