The Inner Level : Penguin Books : 9780141975399 : 0141975393 : 06 Jun 2019 : From the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level Becky R, bookseller, Oxford says 'Excellent. Very readable for someone who mainly reads fiction. Short subsections and very good graph visualisation of data and explanations. Made me question myself - what am I doing to make society more equal?' 'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing increasing levels of mental illness and distress? Highly readable and authoritative, The Inner Level shows clearly how social anxieties and the problems they lead to rise steadily in richer, more unequal societies' Clare Short, The Tablet, Books of the Year Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all thes