This website exists as a forum for additional notes and discussion related to the book The Spirit Level Delusion . Some of...

Kate Pickett and some science The Spirit Level turned ten this month. A minor publishing sensation when it was published in March 20...

Wilkinson and Pickett have written a sequel to The Spirit Level , titled The Inner Level . You can read my review of it here.

Part of The Spirit Level hypothesis is that teen births and homicide are somehow caused by inequality (chapters 9 and 10). However, Wilkinso...

As an addendum to  The Spirit Level Delusion  I have also written an additional chapter discussing Wilkinson and Pickett's response to t...

Colin Mills , professor of sociology at Oxford University, makes some very worthwhile observations about The Spirit Level on his blog . Per...

Richard Smith has written an interesting article in Educational Theory  which looks at the causal mechanism Wilkinson and Pickett propose in...

Last week, Richard Wilkinson wrote an article for The Guardian in which he claimed that a large reduction in inequality took place in the 1...