Tag: Social Sciences
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The American Dream Is In Denmark, The Stanley Cup Is In Chicago
I have to admit, prior to last evening’s broadcast of TVO Big Ideas: The Age of Unequals, I was largely unfamiliar with the work of social epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. The Spirit Level, supported by Richard Wilkinson’s recent Toronto lecture (full stream available via iTunes), offers us an intriguing and also vigorously debated thesis: More equal societies do better and…