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Two irrepressible egalitarian spirits
5 January 2015
British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have changed how the world thinks about economic inequality - and they have a wealth of new insights to share. Wilkinson and Pickett are now completing a new book, due out in 2016, and Too Much editor Sam Pizzigati caught up with the pair at their UK home outside the city of York. The resulting discussion, edited here for publication, explores their Spirit Level experience - and the egalitarian work they see as essential ahead.
Richard Layard, the author of Happiness, which did very well as a serious nonfiction book, had told us to be prepared, when the book comes out, for your life to be completely chaotic for about two weeks. Well, it's been completely chaotic for five years now. It just hasn't let up.This article was published online by OpEdNews.com on January 5, 2015
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Related publications
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin, 2nd Edition 2011
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Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Happiness research webpage