Why Income Inequality Damages Us All: The causal processes

If correlation does not prove causality, what accounts for the associations between income inequality and a wide range of health and social problems? Why do more unequal countries do worse on everything from physical to mental health, from violence to drug abuse, from infant mortality to social cohesion? In this lecture, Wilkinson and Pickett will go through the evidence that larger income differences between rich and poor are major causes of the social damage associated with them. They will provide a non-technical summary of the accumulated statistical evidence and then go on to outline the causal social and psychological mechanisms involved.

Speakers:
Professor Richard Wilkinson (The Equality Trust) and Professor Kate Pickett (University of York)

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