The Year's Best Book on Our Great Divide

By Sam Pizzigati

Created 12/30/2009 - 2:21pm

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By every measure that matters, The Spirit Level helps us understand, relatively equal nations far outperform nations where income and wealth concentrate at the top.

By every measure that matters, The Spirit Level helps us understand, relatively equal nations far outperform nations where income and wealth concentrate at the top.

Many of us have read, over the past 12 months, a variety of books that address America's vast economic gap between our rich and everyone else. Books that trace the roots — in inequality — of our current crisis. Books that explore the political and economic evolution of the inequality that plagues us. Even one book that imagines what will become of us if we let inequality continue to fester.