TED Talks
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
TV-PG
2011 • E67 Jul 12, 2011 15mTed Global 2011
Session 1: Beginnings
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Session 1: Beginnings
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.